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The Legend of Keret, also known as the Epic of King Keret, is an ancient Ugaritic epic poem,〔Samuel Henry Hooke. (Middle Eastern Mythology. ) Dover Publications, 2004. ISBN 978-0-486-43551-0; pages 87–89.〕〔Cyrus H. Gordon. (Notes on the Legend of Keret. ) ''Journal of Near Eastern Studies'', Vol. 11, No. 3 (Jul., 1952), pp. 212–213.〕 dated to Late Bronze Age, circa 1500 – 1200 BC.〔Baruch Margalit. (''The Legend of Keret'' ). In: Wilfred G. E. Watson, and Nicolas Wyatt (editors). (Handbook of Ugaritic Studies. ) Brill Academic Publishers. 1999. ISBN 978-90-04-10988-9; Quote from page 203:"The poem of ''Keret'' is one of the three major literary works which gifted Canaanite poets of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500–1200 BCE) bequeathed serendipitously to 20th century civilization."〕 It recounts the myth of King Keret of Hubur. ==History== The epic of Keret is contained in three rectangular clay tablets, excavated by a team of French archaeologists in Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra), Syria in 1930–31.〔Baruch Margalit. (''The Legend of Keret'' ). In: Wilfred G. E. Watson, and Nicolas Wyatt (editors). (Handbook of Ugaritic Studies. ) Brill Academic Publishers. 1999. ISBN 978-90-04-10988-9; pages 203–233.〕 The text is written in the Ugaritic cuneiform script. (While this script looks superficially similar to Mesopotamian cuneiform, there's no direct relationship between them.) Not all of the tablets recovered were well-preserved and some of the tablets, containing the ending of the story, appeared to be missing. The tablets were inscribed by Ilimilku, a high priest who was also the scribe for the Myth of Baal (a part of the Baal cycle) and the Legend of Aqhat, two other famous Ugaritic epic poems discovered at the Ras Shamra site.〔Johannes Cornelis de Moor. (An Anthology of Religious Texts from Ugarit. ) E.J. Brill, 1987. ISBN 90-04-08330-8; page 224.〕 The initial French translation of the tablets was published by a French archaeologist Charles Virolleaud, in a 1936 monograph〔C. Virolleaud. ''La Ligende de Keret, roi des sidoniens. '' P. Geuthner. Paris, 1936; OCLC: 2760369.〕 and then in the journal ''Syria''. A substantial number of other translations, in many languages, appeared afterwards. Among them the translations of Ginsberg (1946)〔Harold Louis Ginsberg. ''The legend of King Keret; a Canaanite epic of the bronze age.'' American Schools of Oriental Research, New Haven, Conn., 1946; OCLC: 757455〕 and Herdner (1963)〔Andrée Herdner. ''Corpus des tablettes en cuneiformes alphabétiques découvertes à Ras Shamra-Ugarit de 1929 à 1939.'' P. Geuthner. Paris, 1963; OCLC: 1399372〕 are widely used. Some of the more modern translations include Gordon (1977),〔Cyrus H. Gordon. "Poetic Legends and Myths from Ugarit." ''Berytus'', vol. 25 (1977) pp. 5–133. ()〕 Gibson (1978),〔J. C. L. Gibson, ''Canaanite Myths and Legends.'' 2d ed. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1978; ISBN 0-567-02351-6〕 Coogan (1978),〔Michael David Coogan, ''Stories from Ancient Canaan'', Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1978; ISBN 0-664-24184-0〕 and Greenstein (1997).〔Edward L. Greenstein. "Kirta." In: ''Ugaritic Narrative Poetry'', edited by S. B. Parker, pp. 9–48. Writings from the Ancient World 9. Atlanta: Scholars, 1997; ISBN 978-0-7885-0337-5〕 The Keret tablets are held at the Musée National d'Alep, Syria.〔Manfried Dietrich, Oswald Loretz, Joaquín Sanmartín. ''The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts: From Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places'' (KTU: second, enlarged edition). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster. 1995. ISBN 3-927120-24-3, ISBN 978-3-927120-24-2; pp. 36–46 (tablets KTU 1.14–1.16).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Legend of Keret」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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