This study explores the identity and function of the mostly unnoticed figure of Shaʿtiqatu, a creature who plays a pivotal role in the story of the Ugaritic King Kirta. The exploration of this under appreciated figure is situated in the context of Ugaritic apotropea and within the better documented Mesopotamian cultural backdrop. A counterpart article provides the philological and epigraphic analysis to the Shaʿtiqatu Narrative found in ktu 1.16.5.10–1.16.6.14.1
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H. L. Ginsberg, “Ugaritic Myths, Epics, and Legends,” in Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, ed. J. B. Pritchard (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), 148 and The Legend of King Keret: A Canaanite Epic of the Bronze Age (New Haven: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1946), 30, 48 (my emphasis).
See F. A. M. Wiggermann, Mesopotamian Protective Spirits in the Ritual Texts (Groningen: Styx, 1992), 33, 41, 90–91 (cf. kar 20b).
See F. A. M. Wiggermann, Mesopotamian Protective Spirits, 1–103.
Saliba, “A Cure for King Keret,” 108; Parker, The Pre-Biblical Narrative, 190; W. G. E. Watson, “The Goddesses of Ugarit: A Survey,” sel 10 (1993): 56; Wyatt, Religious Texts from Ugarit, 236 n. 275; T. J. Lewis, “Syro-Palestinian Iconography and Divine Images,” in Cult Image and Divine Representation in the Ancient Near East, ed. N. Walls (Atlanta: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2005), 98; L. K. Handy, Among the Host of Heaven: The Syro-Palestinian Pantheon as Bureaucracy (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1994), 139; M. D. Coogan and M. S. Smith, Stories from Ancient Canaan, second edition (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012), 67, 93; Herdner, “La légende de Keret,” 566–567 note i; Gibson, Canaanite Myths and Legends, 22; Dietrich and Loretz, Mythen und Epen IV (tuat), 1249 n. 211; de Moor, “El, the Creator,” 182 n. 49; G. del Olmo Lete and J. Sanmartín, A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2003), 800; Hawley, “Hyssop in the Ugaritic Incantation rs 92.2014,” 38; Greenstein, “Kirta,” 10.
See Wiggermann, Mesopotamian Protective Spirits in the Ritual Texts, 12–15, 65, 87. See also the similar language dealing with the clay pit in the namburbi text lka 120/K. 2777. See R. Caplice, “Namburbi Texts in the British Museum IV,” Orientalia 39 (1970): 142–147. Additional references dealing with clay pit rituals can be found in Wiggermann, 26 (on lines 145–156).
Lewis, “ʿAthtartu’s Incantations,” 213–215, 219. Cf. too the argument made in this article about how ʿAthatartu “the Name of Baʿlu” is employing the name of the warrior deity Baʿlu in an incantation in order to hex Yammu.
Cf., for example, Wiggermann, Mesopotamian Protective Spirits in the Ritual Texts, 12–15.
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This study explores the identity and function of the mostly unnoticed figure of Shaʿtiqatu, a creature who plays a pivotal role in the story of the Ugaritic King Kirta. The exploration of this under appreciated figure is situated in the context of Ugaritic apotropea and within the better documented Mesopotamian cultural backdrop. A counterpart article provides the philological and epigraphic analysis to the Shaʿtiqatu Narrative found in ktu 1.16.5.10–1.16.6.14.1
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