2024

ARTISAN QUARTER

Street square and neighborhood to visit

Around the acropolis, in tight islets, extended several quarters of dwellings and workshops. Lapidary and Goldsmiths worked for the fortune and reputation of Ugarit.

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2024

HOUSING ESTATE

Street square and neighborhood to visit

Designed on a plane relatively similar to that of the Royal Palace, the residences of the rich Ougaritains offered the particularity of hosting both the living and their deceased ancestors. An opening to the ground of a small piece of each house allowed to win the burial chamber by a stair of stairs. The most beautiful example of this joint arrangement at most of the major residences is located in the house of Rapanou, which is a town of the city, whose neighbour, a Dénommé, was responsible for the Ugarit market. The houses have delivered various, often very luxurious, objects of local, foreign, or even imitation bills such as Egyptian beetles and ivories.

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