Elkunirša and Ašertu (1.55)(719 words)
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Beckman, Gary, “Elkunirša and Ašertu (1.55)”, in: Context of Scripture Online, Editor in Chief: W. Hallo. Consulted online on 24 April 2018 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2211-436X_cos_aCOSB_1_55>▲ Back to top ▲
Commentary
Although the particular events of this tale are not known from the mythological tablets recovered at Ugarit, the story certainly belongs to the corpus of northern Syrian myths which they represent. This composition has come down to us in a number of fragments which originally belonged to two or three separate manuscripts, but only two portions o…