• Ugarit (/juːˈɡɑːrɪt, uː-/; Ugaritic: 𐎜𐎂𐎗𐎚, ʾUgarītu) was an ancient port city in northern Syria about 10 kilometers north of modern Latakia. At its...
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  • UGARIT is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Mediterranean Sea linking Cyprus and Syria. It has landing points in: Pentaskhinos, Cyprus...
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    of Carchemish sent troops to assist Ugarit, but Ugarit was sacked. Letter RS 19.011 (KTU 2.61) sent from Ugarit following the destruction said: To Ž(...
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    Astarte (section At Ugarit)
    Phoenicians, though she was originally associated with Amorite cities like Ugarit and Emar, as well as Mari and Ebla. She was also celebrated in Egypt, especially...
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    of eternity". The name Raphael or Rapha-El, meaning 'God has healed' in Ugarit, is attested to in approximately 1350 BCE in one of the Amarna Letters EA333...
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    None of the inscribed tablets found since 1928 in the Canaanite city of Ugarit (destroyed c. 1200 BC) has revealed a cosmology. Syntheses are nearly impossible...
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    Ugaritic texts (redirect from Ugarit texts)
    texts are a corpus of ancient cuneiform texts discovered since 1928 in Ugarit (Ras Shamra) and Ras Ibn Hani in Syria, and written in Ugaritic, an otherwise...
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  • Yarikh (section In Ugarit)
    Ancient Near East. He is best attested in sources from the Amorite city of Ugarit in the north of modern Syria, where he was one of the principal deities...
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  • franchise). It consists of three parts: Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit, Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb and Jack Hunter and the...
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    Babylonian Aramaic, Ugarit, Münster 2013, p. 78 Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal, Introduction to the Grammar of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, Ugarit, Münster 2013...
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  • Shapshu (section In Ugarit)
    Alalaḫ and at Late Bronze Age Ugarit. While name in Alalah show a mixture of the forms (Shamshu and Shapshu), in Ugarit there is not one attestation,...
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    archaeology Rulers of Ugarit Ammittamru I of Ugarit (Amarna letters) Niqmaddu II of Ugarit (Amarna letters) (1349–1315 BC) Arhalba of Ugarit (1315–1313 BC) Niqmepa...
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  • Texte aus Ugarit or Keilschrifttexte aus Ugarit, abbreviated KTU, is the standard source reference collection for the cuneiform texts from Ugarit. The German...
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    Dagon (section Ugarit)
    areas are much less frequent and come mostly from the northern city of Ugarit, where Dagan's cult had a limited scope. According to the Hebrew Bible,...
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    Asherah (section Ugarit)
    romanized: a-še-ir-tu4). Her name was Aṯeratum to the Amorites, and Athiratu in Ugarit. Many scholars hold that Yahweh and Asherah were a consort pair in ancient...
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    for Ugaritic, an extinct Northwest Semitic language, and discovered in Ugarit (modern Ras Al Shamra), Syria, in 1928. It has 30 letters. Other languages...
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    Elohim (redirect from Elohim (Ugarit))
    Elohim (Hebrew: אֱלֹהִים, romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning "gods" or "godhood". Although...
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  • Vassal state (section Ugarit)
    the northern frontier, and included states such as Nuhašše, Qatna, and Ugarit. These were located on the fringes of the territory claimed by Egypt and...
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  • through the 12th century BC. The city of Ugarit was destroyed roughly 1190 BC. Literary texts discovered at Ugarit include the Legend of Keret, the legends...
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    Sea Peoples (section Ugarit)
    Mediterranean are confirmed by the destruction of the states of Hatti, Ugarit, Ascalon and Hazor around this time. As the Hittitologist Trevor Bryce observes...
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    locations. While well attested in Hurrian and Hittite sources, as well as in Ugarit, she is largely absent from documents from the western part of ancient Syria...
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  • Ugarit News (Arabic: أوغاريت الاخبارية) was an online Syrian rebel news outlet reporting on the Syrian conflict in both Arabic and English. Ugarit News...
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    the ancient Near East, particularly Ugarit in Syria. She is widely recognized for her archaeological work on Ugarit, where she conducted excavations for...
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    Hurrian songs (category Archaeological discoveries in Ugarit)
    cuneiform on clay tablets excavated from the ancient Amorite-Canaanite city of Ugarit, a headland in northern Syria, which date to approximately 1400 BC[chronology...
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  • the last king of Ugarit, reporting the approaching fleet of the Peoples of the Sea. Shortly thereafter they destroyed both Ugarit and Alasiya (Cyprus)...
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    the executive whilst Ba' al was the sustainer of the cosmos. The Baʿal of Ugarit was the epithet of Hadad but as the time passed, the epithet became the...
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    sharing her name located in Suhum, should be considered her forerunner. In Ugarit, Anat was one of the main goddesses, and regularly received offerings, as...
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  • El Shaddai (section Ugarit)
    Shaddai is mentioned as ʿIl-Šidai. zd is breast. There is a DN Athtart-šd in Ugarit. There are references to DNs (indicated by the kbkb star divine name determinative)...
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    Bronze Age ruler and king (c. 1215 to 1180 BC) of the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit. Ammurapi was a contemporary of the Hittite King Suppiluliuma II. He wrote...
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    one of the main differences between the religion of the inhabitants of Ugarit and those known from other areas inhabited by speakers of Northwest Semitic...
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