Ugaritic texts
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Ugaritic texts
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The Ugaritic texts are a corpus of ancient cuneiform texts discovered in 1928 in Ugarit and Ras Ibn Hani in Syria, and written in Ugaritic, an otherwise unknown Northwest Semitic language. Approximately 1,500 texts and fragments have been found to date. The texts were written in the 13th and 12th centuries BC. The most famous of the Ugarit texts are the approximately fifty epic poems; the three major literary texts are the Baal Cycle, the Legend of Keret, and the Tale of Aqhat. The other texts i
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Corpus of ancient cuneiform texts discovered in Syria
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugaritic_texts
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2018-11-10T21:17:33Z
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2024-09-12T02:19:16Z
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