entity · ENT-UGARIT
Ugarit
A city and kingdom on the Levantine coast, Ugarit connected a local hinterland to maritime commerce and royal diplomacy. Its archives preserve dealings with Alashiya, associated with Cyprus, as well as evidence for different writing traditions.
Ugarit: a place in a connected world
A city and kingdom on the Levantine coast, Ugarit connected a local hinterland to maritime commerce and royal diplomacy. Its archives preserve dealings with Alashiya, associated with Cyprus, as well as evidence for different writing traditions.
Read the city through its correspondence: messages moved between courts, merchants and ports. A connection recorded in a letter is firmer evidence than a modern line drawn between two cities.
What changed?
Violent destruction and abandonment
What continued?
No substantial immediate urban reoccupation is recorded in this account. That does not tell us where every inhabitant went.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Destruction by warfare
A destruction horizon for which the material evidence supports violent attack or combat.
Why does this record have this property?
The material evidence strongly favors violent assault. It does not identify the attackers, so a separate Sea Peoples perpetrator assignment would have much lower confidence.
- Destruction at the End of the Late Bronze Age in Syria: A Reassessment
supports assignment · Ugarit section, weapons and destruction evidence
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides destruction assessment
Destruction at the End of the Late Bronze Age in Syria: A Reassessment — Jesse Michael Millek (2019) - informs · provides food and tribute context
Grain Tribute in Hittite Syria and the Fall of Ugarit — Yoram Cohen, Eduardo Torrecilla (2023)