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Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Ra’s at Tamrah
  • geo:35.602009,35.783848
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -8000~ / -1175~

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Annotations

Literature:

  1. K. Lawson Younger Jr (ed.), Ugarit at Seventy-Five, Eisenbrauns, 2007
  2. Charles Gates, Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome, Psychology Press 2003, pp. 158nn
  3. Marguerite Yon, The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra, Eisenbrauns, 2006

http://www.ras-shamra.ougarit.mom.fr/


Relevant museums

Aleppo, National Museum

Large collection of Bronze Age (a/o Ebla, Mari, Ugarit), Iron Age (Arslan Tash), Hellenistic, and Roman finds.

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre


Nearby

Baal stele - Baal with Thunderbolt

Stele of the Semitic god of storm and rain. Musée du Louvre in Paris.

Ugarit, House with a Portico

House with a Portico, Ugaryt.

Ugarit, House of Alabaster Vessels

House of Alabaster Vessels


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