Aqhat Translated by Simon B. Parker The story of Aqhat is preserved on three tablets, discovered at Ras Shamra in 1930–1931 and first published in 1936 (Virolleaud 1936). The order of the three tablets and of the columns on the tablets is universally accepted. It is also clear that the story must have continued on a fourth tablet.1 Of the three tablets we have, the first, six-column tablet and the second, four-column tablet each lack the two middle columns. The four columns of the third tablet