Ugarit

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ancient city-state archaeological site port city

Ugarit was an important ancient port city-state on the Syrian coast, known for its influential Canaanite culture and the discovery of one of the earliest alphabetic writing systems.

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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form Occurrences
Ras Shamra 2
Canaanite city-state of Ugarit 1
Kingdom of Ugarit 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient city-state ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ
port city ⓘ
archaeologicalSite Ugarit self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Ras Shamra
capitalOf Ugarit self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Kingdom of Ugarit
country Syria ⓘ
culture Canaanites ⓘ
surface form: Canaanite culture
destroyedAround circa 1200 BCE ⓘ
destroyedDuring Late Bronze Age collapse ⓘ
economy port-based commerce ⓘ
excavatedBy Claude F. A. Schaeffer ⓘ
excavationStarted 1928 ⓘ
flourishedDuring 2nd millennium BCE ⓘ
governmentType monarchy ⓘ
heritageStatus important Near Eastern archaeological heritage site ⓘ
influenced later Phoenician culture ⓘ
study of Biblical Hebrew ⓘ
knownFor Ugaritic alphabet ⓘ
Ugaritic cuneiform tablets ⓘ
early alphabetic writing system ⓘ
language Ugaritic language ⓘ
languageFamily Northwest Semitic ⓘ
surface form: Northwest Semitic languages
locatedIn Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ
Levant region ⓘ
surface form: Levant

Syrian coast ⓘ
majorDeity Anat ⓘ
Asherah ⓘ
Baal ⓘ
El ⓘ
modernNearbyCity Latakia ⓘ
pantheon Canaanite religion ⓘ
surface form: Ugaritic pantheon
partOf Canaan ⓘ
politicalStatus city-state ⓘ
produced administrative texts ⓘ
legal texts ⓘ
literary texts ⓘ
mythological texts ⓘ
region Mediterranean Basin ⓘ
religion Canaanite religion ⓘ
timePeriod Late Bronze Age ⓘ
trade maritime trade ⓘ
tradedWith Cyprus ⓘ
Pharaonic Egypt ⓘ
surface form: Egypt

Hittite Empire ⓘ
Mesopotamia ⓘ
writingSystem Ugaritic alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Ugaritic
writingSystemType alphabetic cuneiform ⓘ

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ugarit → archaeologicalSite → Ugarit self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ras Shamra
Ugarit → capitalOf → Ugarit self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kingdom of Ugarit
Baal → cultCenter → Ugarit ⓘ
this entity surface form: Canaanite city-state of Ugarit
this entity surface form: Ras Shamra
Canaan → majorCity → Ugarit ⓘ
Latakia → nearbyAncientSite → Ugarit ⓘ
Canaanites → notableCity → Ugarit ⓘ
Ugaritic alphabet → usedIn → Ugarit ⓘ
this entity surface form: ancient Syria
El → worshipCenter → Ugarit ⓘ
Anat → worshipRegion → Ugarit ⓘ
Astarte → worshippedIn → Ugarit ⓘ