# Inspector task sheet

Ugarit's Baal cycle: can the broken tablets be joined?

## 1. Trace the earliest accessible record

For Ugarit's Baal cycle: can the broken tablets be joined?, record author or storyteller, collection date, language, translation, page and exact scope. Distinguish evidence of a story being told from evidence of its events. Note which full documents remain unavailable.

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## 2. Investigate the central question

Compare museum photographs, fragment dimensions, edge condition and sign orientation with successive scholarly editions. Mark supplied text, surviving signs and conjectural order separately. Check which translations rely on the questioned join. Keep the literary narrative distinct from physical claims about the gods it depicts.

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## 3. Compare explanations without merging evidence

Compare edges, line spacing and successive editions before accepting continuous readings. Separate literary narration, translation and independently dated historical evidence. Preserve contradictions and unsuccessful searches; proposed work remains unperformed.

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