The Tale of Aqhat[1] or Epic of Aqhat[2] is a Canaanite myth from Ugarit,[3] an ancient city in what is now Syria. It is one of the three longest texts to have been found at Ugarit, the other two being the Legend of Keret and the Baal Cycle.[4] It dates to approximately 1350 BCE.[5]
While the complete tale has not been preserved, there remain of it, according to David Wright, "approximately 650 poetic lines", with the bulk of its content concerning "ritual performances or their contexts".[6] The remains of the story are found on three clay tablets, missing the beginning and end of the story.[7] These tablets were discovered in 1930 and 1931.[1]
The Tale of Aqhat was recorded at Ugarit by the high priest Ilmilku, who was also the author of the Legend of Keret and the Baal Cycle.[8] The three primary characters of the Tale are a man named Danel, his son Aqhat, and his daughter Pugat.[9]
is often referred to as the TaleofAqhat. Danel was depicted as "judging the cause of the widow, adjudicating the case of the fatherless" in the city...
religion and cult of the Canaanite Baal; the two other particularly well known texts are the Legend of Keret and the TaleofAqhat. The other texts include...
priest who was also the scribe for the Myth of Baal-Aliyan (a part of the Baal cycle) and the TaleofAqhat, two other famous Ugaritic epic poems discovered...
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the Tell of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra), situated on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria, a few kilometers north of the modern city of Latakia and...
Code of Hammurabi, Laws of Eshnunna, the Code of Ur-Nammu, king of Ur (c. 2050 BC), the Laws of Eshnunna (c. 1930 BC) and the Code of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin...
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apparently had religious connotations, and mentions of it are made in the Ugaritic Baal Epic and TaleofAqhat. Even after burials in organized cemeteries supplanted...
number of administrative lists. Fragments of several poetic works have been identified: the "Legend of Keret", the "Legend of Danel", the Ba'al tales that...
Age ruler and king (c. 1215 to 1180 BC) of the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit. Ammurapi was a contemporary of the Hittite King Suppiluliuma II. He wrote...
Telepinus Myth Ugaritic Poem about Baal and Anath (the Baal Cycle) The TaleofAqhat II. Legal Texts: Mesopotamia and Asia Minor; Egyptian and Hittite Treaties;...
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the sixth king of Ugarit, a city-state in northwestern Syria. Ibiranu reigned between c. 1235 and 1225/20 BC, and was a contemporary of Tudhaliya IV and...
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myths, including the Baal Cycle and the Epic ofAqhat. In the former, she is portrayed as a staunch ally of the weather god Baal, who assists him in his...
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