Kirta or Keret is a legendary Hurrian king. He is thought to have founded the dynasty of Mitanni, but no contemporary inscriptions from his time are known to exist. He may have lived around 1500 BC. His offsprings included Suttarna I and Barattarna, who was noted for his participation in the battle of Megiddo between 1479 and 1426 BCE.Late Bronze Age literary and ritual Ugarit texts described him as a warrior hero raised among the "shades of the earth" in the gathering of Didanu. It is suggested that these references indicated the king's nomadic ancestry as they possibly alluded to an affinity with the Amorite tribe. The Epic of Kirta from the clay tablets of Ugarit tells the story of the near-extinction of the royal house of Keret, though it was written much later and by a country hostile