Danel

Tablet bearing part of the Danel epic, Louvre

Danel (/ˈdnəl/, Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎐𐎛𐎍 DNỈL, "El is judge"),[1] father of Aqhat, was a culture hero who appears in an incomplete Ugaritic text of the fourteenth century BCE[2] at Ugarit (now Ras Shamra), Syria.

  1. ^ Virolleaud 1936, et al.
  2. ^ Made during the reign of Niqmadu III, ca. 1360 BCE (Walton 1994:49).