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library and other libraries on the acropolis. Some of the
family vaults built under the stone houses show strong Mycenaean
influence. Mycenaean and Cypriot pottery in great amounts has also
been found.
After the discovery of the temple library, which revealed a hitherto unknown cuneiform alphabetic script as well as an entirely new mythological and religious literature, several other palatial as well as private libraries were found, along with archives dealing with all aspects of the city's political, social, economic, and cultural life.
The art of Ugarit in its golden age is best illustrated by a golden cup and patera (bowl) ornamented with incised Ugaritic scenes; by carved stone stelae and bronze statuettes and ceremonial axes; by carved ivory panels depicting royal activities; and by other fine-carved ivories. Despite Egyptian influence, Ugaritic art exhibits a Syrian style of its own.
Soon after 1200 BC Ugarit came to an end. Its fall coincided with the invasion of the Northern and Sea Peoples and certainly with earthquakes and famines. In the Iron Age and during the 6th-4th century BC, there were small settlements on the site (Leukos Limen).
The excavators of the site were fortunate in the number and variety of finds of ancient records in cuneiform script. The excavations continue, and each season throws some new and often unexpected light on the ancient north Canaanite civilization. The texts are written on clay tablets either in the Babylonian cuneiform script or in the special alphabetic cuneiform script invented in Ugarit. Several copies of this alphabet, with its 30 signs, were found in 1949 and later. A shorter alphabet, with 25, or even 22, signs, seems to have been used by 13th-century traders.
Scribes used four languages: Ugaritic, Akkadian, Sumerian, and
Hurrian, and seven different scripts were used in Ugarit in this
period: Egyptian and Hittite hieroglyphic and Cypro-Minoan,
Sumerian, Akkadian, Hurrian, and Ugaritic cuneiform. These show
clearly the cosmopolitan character of the city.
Ras Shamra texts and the Bible:
Many texts discovered at Ugarit, including the "Legend of Keret,"
the "Aghat Epic" (or "Legend of Danel"), the "Myth of
Baal-Aliyan," and the "Death of Baal," reveal an Old Canaanite
mythology. A tablet names the Ugaritic pantheon with Babylonian
equivalents; El, Asherah of the Sea, and Baal were the main
deities. These texts not only constitute a literature of high
standing and great originality but also have an important bearing
on Old Testament studies. It is now evident that the patriarchal
stories in the Old Testament were not merely transmitted orally
but were based on written documents of Canaanite origin, the
discovery of which at Ugarit has led to a new appraisal of the Old
Testament.
The Ras Shamra mound:
Soundings made through the Ras Shamra mound revealed a reliable
stratigraphic sequence of settlements from the beginning of the
Neolithic period. Above the ground level, five main upper levels
(levels V to I) were identified. The three lowest levels have been
subdivided into smaller layers. The earliest settlement on level
V--already a small fortified town in the 7th millennium BC--shows
a prepottery stage with flint industries. Also on level V, but in
a later layer, light, sun-dried pottery appears. Level IV and part
of level III date back to the Chalcolithic, or Copper-Stone, Age,
when new ethnic groups arrived from the northeast and the east.
This stage shows Mediterranean as well as strong Mesopotamian
influence. During the Early Chalcolithic Age, painted pottery of
the Hassunan and Halafian cultures of northern Iraq is very
common. The Late Chalcolithic shows fresh Mesopotamian influence
with its monochromatic, Ubaidian, geometric painted pottery. The
flint industry was then in competition with the first metal tools,
made of copper. The Early Bronze Age (3rd millennium) layers,
immediately above, in level III, yielded no more painted ware but
various monochromatic burnished wares and some red polished ware
of Anatolian origin. With Early Bronze Age III, metallurgy quickly
developed. In the Middle Bronze Age, newcomers, so-called
Torque-Bearers, expert in bronze metallurgy, arrived (c. 2000-1900
BC). Levels II and I correspond to historical periods within the
2nd millennium BC.
Attractions and historical building
- Among the more important discoveries at Ugarit are
tablets from the 14th cent. B.C. Written in a
cuneiform script, in a hitherto unknown language, Ugaritic,
they record the poetic works and myths of the ancient Canaanites.
They are written in an alphabet that is one of the earliest
known. Ugaritic has been identified as a Semitic language,
related to classical Hebrew, the language of the Old Testament,
and these tablets, the first authentic specimens of pagan
Canaanite literature, have been of great importance to students of
language and of the Bible. They offer evidence that the stories of
the Old Testament were based on written Canaanite documents as
well as being passed down orally.
- The main palace
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