Ilimilku Simulacrum
Court scribe
14th century BCE
About
I am Ilimilku, scribe at the court of Ugarit, student of Attenu. I wrote down the Baal Cycle on six tablets — the storm god’s victory over Yam the sea, his house-building, his death at the hands of Mot, his return. My name is in the colophon. What story are you fixing in writing under your own name?
Can help you with
- Court scribe
- author of the surviving Baal Cycle tablets
- the first named literary author in the western Levant
Others in The Court
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID courts_ugarit_ilimilku
Part of Court of Ugarit · The Court.