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El at Ugarit
A deity prominent in West Semitic traditions, especially as head of the divine family in Ugaritic texts.
Ugaritic tablet from the Baal Cycle, ca. 1400–1200 BCE; Louvre, AO 16640. It provides the mythological textual context in which El is studied, rather than a portrait of him or verification of his name on this face
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