Ras Shamra

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Ras Shamra (Arabic: رأس شمرة "cape of the wild fennel"), the site of ancient Ugarit on the Mediterranean coast of Syria. Associated with the port settlement of Minet el-Beida, apparently the harbour of Ugarit.

Contents 1 Description 2 Excavation 3 Bibliography 3.1 Excavation reports 3.2 Derivative treatments 4 External links

Description

The site of Ras Shamra covers approximately 28 hectares in surface area, as preserved. There are clear indications, however, that the city in the Late Bronze Age was far larger, the site having experienced considerable erosion, especially on the northern and eastern edges of the mound (up to 30 metres now missing).

Excavation

Bibliography

Excavation reports

• al-Maqdissi, M., Bahloul, K., Callot, O., Calvet, Y., Maatoïan, V. and Sauvage, C. [2007], "Rapport préliminaire sur les activités de la Mission Syro-Française de Ras-Shamra-Ougarit en 2005 et 2006 (65e et 66e Campagnes)", Syria 84 (2007), pp.33-56. pdf

• Monchambert, Jean-Yves [2004], La céramique d'Ougarit: Campagne de fouilles 1975 et 1976, [Ras Shamra-Ougarit 15], Paris: Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 2004. [Review: K. Vansteenhuyse, BASOR 343 (2006), pp.125-126].

• Yon, M., Karageorghis, V. and Hirschfeld, N. (eds), Céramiques mycéniennes d'Ougarit, [Ras Shamra-Ougarit 13], Nicosia: Leventis Foundation, 2000.

Derivative treatments

• Calvet, Yves [2006], "Le rempart d'Ougarit", in Butterlin, P., Lebeau, M., Monchambert, J.-Y., Montero Fenollós, J.L. and Muller, B. (eds), Les Espaces Syro-Mésopotamiens - Dimensions de l'expérience humaine au Proche-Orient Ancient - Volume d'hommage offert à Jean-Claude Margueron, [Subartu 17], Brepols: Turnhout, 2006, pp.191-197. ISBN 2503520235

External links

• Royaume d'Ougarit, Ras Shamra - primarily French language web site

• the Edinburgh Ras Shamra Project (ERSP) - University of Edinburgh web site (a moderately interesting site with some primary materials, but which seems to have received little attention since c. 1994)