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The Wider World of Writing. Networks of People, Practice and Culture Underpinning Writing in Late Bronze Age Ugarit

open access: yesCambridge Archaeological Journal, 2022
Writing is a social practice, and as such is fundamentally entwined with a wide array of other forms of human activity, professional categories and aspects of cultural life.
Philip J. Boyes
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Some Intercultural Roots of Purāṇic Mythological Cycle around Nārāyaṇa

open access: yesComparative Literature: East & West, 2022
In this paper, I use the structural analysis of myth proposed by C. Lévi-Strauss to show that there is a structural similarity between two mythological cycles of dying(sleeping)-and-rising god: around Ba’al and around Nārāyaṇa.
Andrew Schumann
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Filial Duties in the Ugaritic Epic of Danilu and Aqhatu

open access: yesCollectanea Theologica, 2023
The list of filial duties from the Aqhatu story constitutes a passage unique to the literature of the ancient Near East, emphasized in the epic by its fourfold repetition in close proximity. This is why the list has attracted much attention of scholars,
Marcin Majewski
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Urban Squares in Late Bronze Age Ugarit: a Street View on Ancient Near Eastern Governance

open access: yesJournal of Near Eastern Studies, 2021
This article deals with the socio-political dimension of public space in 13th-century bc Ugarit, with a particular focus on the city’s squares. Ugarit, located on the Syrian seacoast immediately north of modern Lattakia, is one of the best-documented ...
Alessandra Gilibert
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Descolonización y nacionalización del patrimonio arqueológico sirio entre 1946 y 1956. Un estudio de caso en torno al yacimiento de Ras Shamra.

open access: yesPanta rei, 2023
En el momento en el que la República Árabe de Siria proclamó su independencia en 1946, puso su patrimonio arqueológico al servicio de la construcción de la identidad nacional.
Juan Álvarez García
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Textiles in Ritual and Cultic Practices in Ugarit

open access: yes, 2019
Con autorización de la editorial para este capítulo.This chapter is one result of the researcg project "Bureaucracy and Administrative Procedures in the Syrian Kingdom of Ugarit (14th to 12th centuries BC)" (FFI2015-67357-P) (MINECO/FEDER, UE), funded by
Vita, Juan-Pablo   +2 more
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El calendario de Ugarit: breve estado de la cuestión

open access: yes, 2022
Este artículo está sujeto a una licencia CC BY NC 4.0[ES] La presente contribución tiene por objetivo actualizar nuestro conocimiento acerca del calendario del antiguo reino sirio de Ugarit.
Vita Barra, Juan Pablo
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An Exceptional Type of Hybrid in Ugarit: The Sphinx on the Inscribed Stamp Seal RS 25.188

open access: yes, 2022
International audienceTexte und Bilder geben Aufschluss über das Vorhandensein von Hybriden in der Dokumentation von Ugarit. Während die in den poetischen Kompositionen evozierten Figuren bereits Gegenstand mehrerer Studien waren, ist der reiche und ...
Matoïan, Valérie
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River Ordeal in Hittite Written Documents

open access: yesAnadolu Araştırmaları, 2023
Ordeal practice, which has an important place in the Laws of the Ancient Near East, can be defined as the act of judging. However, such trials were carried out to understand whether a crime had indeed been perpetrated by a certain person rather than to ...
Sezer Seçer Fidan
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El Ciclo de Baal como representación social de la realeza de Ugarit

open access: yesAstarté, 2023
El artículo propone interpretar el Ciclo canónico de Baal en términos de un rol esperado de la realeza de la ciudad de Ugarit. Se sostendrá que los distintos mitemas del texto pueden ser analizados como configuraciones del orden y del caos estatalmente ...
Javier Norberto Nuñez
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