Keilalphabetische Texte aus Ugarit
Keilalphabetische Texte aus Ugarit or Keilschrifttexte aus Ugarit, abbreviated KTU, is the standard source reference collection for the cuneiform texts from Ugarit. The German names for this collection literally mean "Wedge-Alphabetical Texts from Ugarit" and "Cuneiform Texts from Ugarit"
The editors include Manfried Dietrich of the University of Münster Institut für Altorientalische Philologie, Oswald Loretz, and Joaquín Sanmartín of the University of Barcelona.
The abbreviation is usually used according to the German, KTU³ with ³ indicating the third edition: Dietrich, Loretz, and Sanmartin. The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places. Münster 2013. Occasionally the abbreviation CAT is also used for the second edition, though this is less common.
The KTU cataloguing system overlaps with two earlier systems:UT - Cyrus Gordon Ugaritic textbook Rome CTA - Andrée Herdner Corpus tablettes alphabetiques Paris
Order and abbreviations
The numbering system provides that inscription 2.100 is the hundredth inscription in genre 2, following inscription 2.99 and preceding 2.101.- EN: Excavation no.
- Fd: Find-spot
- Mu: Museum no.
- Co: Copy/copies
- Tr: Transliteration
- Ph: Photograph
- SR: Special Remarks
- Ge: Genre
- Bi: Bibliography