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The Ugaritic ritual texts provide the only extensive documentary data for Late Bronze cultic practice in the greater Syro-Palestinian region. These texts, in a West-Semitic language that belongs to the same family as Hebrew and Aramaic, reflect the actual practice of a sacrificial cult in the city of Ugarit in the late twelfth–early eleventh centuries BCE. Based on new collations of the tablets,...

were prepared for a specific sacrificial ritual. (The basic information follows, but for it to be truly meaningful, the interested reader should compare the deity lists with the sacrificial ritual translated as text 12 and go to the copies in Nougayrol 1968 and Pardee 2000a as cited below to observe the marks on the tablets.) That RS 24.264+ (col. B) was prepared as a sort of liturgical outline for a sacrificial rite corresponding closely to that of RS 24.643:1–12 is shown by the horizontal line
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