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| | Syria Gate - Ugarit - By: Carol Miller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Says Amelie Kuhrt, "To alert the pharaoh to the power of the neighboring ruler of Tyre and warn him of his ambitions, he compared Tyre's wealth and splendor to that of Ugarit", which, she goes on to say, lay beyond Egypt's empire and was probably at this point an independent domain. |
 | | The foundations for the Bronze Age city-state and its maritime supremacy originated in the second millennium B.C. when Ugarit was capital of a kingdom, probably Amorite, that extended across a tel or artificial hill only about twenty meters in height, that spread over approximately thirty-six hectares. |
 | | Baal ("Lord" or "Master") was associated with the storm deity, proprietor of thunder and lightning, ubiquitous among the western Semitic pantheons, initially an expression of the Aramean Hadad and later identified with the Greek Zeus. |
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