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names for this collection literally mean "Wedge-Alphabetical Texts from Ugarit" and "Cuneiform Texts from Ugarit" (''Keil'' is German for "wedge", ''alphabetische'' for "alphabetical", ''Schrift'' for "writing", ''Texte'' for "texts", ''aus'' for "from".) The editors include Manfried Dietrich (born in

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. 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.Sarah Iles Johnston ''Religions of the ancient world: a guide'' 2004 p697 "CAT M. Dietrich, O. Loretz, and J. Sanmartin, The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ihn Hani, and Other Places (Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 1995) (= second edition of KTU)" The KTU cataloguing system overlaps with two earlier systems: * UT -

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''Ugaritic textbook'' Rome (1965) * CTA - Andrée Herdner ''Corpus tablettes alphabetiques'' Paris (1963).

References

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