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Hurrian Hymn No. 6 (Hymn to Nikkal)

c. 1400 BCE (tablets from a stratum of the fourteenth century BCE) · 15th century BCE

The Hurrian songs, or Hurrian Hymns, are about 36 hymns written in cuneiform on fragments of clay tablets. They were excavated in the 1950s from the Royal Palace at Ugarit, the present-day Ras Shamra on the coast of northern Syria, in a stratum dating from the fourteenth century BCE.

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Hurrian Hymn No. 6 (Hymn to Nikkal)c. 1400 BCE

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Hurrian Hymn No. 6 (Hymn to Nikkal). In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/hurrian-songs
MLA: “Hurrian Hymn No. 6 (Hymn to Nikkal).” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/hurrian-songs. Accessed .
Chicago: The Epoch Institute. “Hurrian Hymn No. 6 (Hymn to Nikkal).” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/hurrian-songs.
Harvard: The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Hurrian Hymn No. 6 (Hymn to Nikkal)’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/hurrian-songs (Accessed: ).

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