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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,...

majority of them date, therefore, to the last few years of the kingdom of Ugarit (i.e., to the years 1200–1185 in round figures).4 These particular situations may be defined topographically as well as temporally: some texts (see, in particular, text 15 [RS 1.003]) reflect a significant number of changes of location, while others (e.g., text 18 [RS 1.005]) explicitly prescribe processions. But those texts that do not refer explicitly to a place or places may reflect the cultic practice of a particular
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