Ugarit
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Ugarit was an ancient Levantine coastal city located in what is today northern Syria, at a site known in Arabic as Ras Shamra or Tell Shamra. Since its discovery in 1928, the site has revealed the old
Ruins of Ugarit.
A tomb in the Royal palace's courtyard
A Baal statuette from Ugarit
Mycenaean ceramic imported to Ugarit, 14th–13th century BC.
Baal
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Baal, or Ba'al, was a title and honorific meaning "owner" or "lord" in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. From its use among people, it came to be applied to gods.
Ugarit
…administrative lists. Fragments of several poetic works have been identified: the "Legend of Keret", the "Legend of Danel", the Ba'al tales that detail Baal-Hadad's conflicts with Yam and Mot, for pre-eminence under the God El among other fragments. Because all texts found at Ugarit date between roughly…
Baal with Thunderbolt stele from Ugarit (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Solid cast bronze of a votive figurine representing Baal discovered at Tel Megiddo, dating to the mid-2nd millennium BC (Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, Illinois)