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The Legend of Keret, also known as the Epic of Kirta, is an ancient Ugaritic epic poem, dated to Late Bronze Age, circa 1500 – 1200 BCE. It recounts the myth of King Kirta of Hubur. It is one of the Ugaritic texts.
The epic story of Keret is contained in three rectangular clay tablets, excavated by a team of French archaeologists in Ras Shamra in the First Syrian Republic in 1930–31. The text is written in the Ugaritic alphabet, a cuneiform abjad. (While this script looks superficially similar to Mesopotamian cuneiform, there's no direct relationship between them.) Not all of the tablets recovered were well-preserved and some of the tablets, containing the ending of the story, appeared to be missing. The tablets were inscribed by Ilimilku, a high priest who was also the scribe for the Myth of Baal-Aliyan (a part of the Baal cycle) and the Tale of Aqhat, two other famous Ugaritic epic poems discovered at Ras Shamra.
King Kirta of Hubur, despite being reputed to be a son of the great god El (deity) himself, was struck with many misfortunes. Although Kirta had seven wives, they all either died in childbirth or of various diseases or deserted him, and Kirta had no surviving children. While his mother had eight sons, Kirta was the only one to survive and he had no family members to succeed him and saw his dynasty in ruin.
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