Ougarit et son royaume des origines à sa destruction
Gabriel Saadé
Auteurs
Marguerite Yon, avec le concours de Leila Badre (éd.)
Résumé
L’ouvrage auquel Gabriel Saadé, lui-même Syrien de Lattaquié, avait consacré de longues années constitue une somme indispensable sur une page essentielle de l’histoire de la Syrie antique, à qui l’on doit en particulier le premier alphabet à la fin du IIe millénaire av. J.-C. Une actualisation nécessaire de l’ouvrage (Marguerite Yon) depuis la disparition de son auteur signale les travaux menés depuis 1997 et les nouveaux résultats acquis.
Cet ouvrage de référence s’adresse à tous ceux qu’intéresse l’histoire du Proche Orient.
Abstract
The book on which Gabriel Saadé, a Syrian from Lattakia, spent many long years constitutes an indispensable addition of an essential page in the history of ancient Syria, to which we owe in particular the creation of the first alphabet at the beginning of the second millennium B.C.
A necessary update of the book (Marguerite Yon) since the disappearance of its author reports on the work that has been conducted since 1997, and the new results that have emerged.
Located on a site (Ras Shamra) occupied since the Neolithic era, the city of Ugarit was, at the end of the Bronze Age, the capital of a kingdom situated between the Mediterranean and Jabal al-Ansariyeh (mohafazat of Lattakia). Based on the archaeological results produced by the French mission since 1929 in collaboration with the Direction des Antiquités de Syrie, and on the considerable international contributions of scientific works, Gabriel Saade’s book describes and synthesizes the brilliant Ugaritic civilization up until its brutal disappearance starting in the 12th century B.C. : its origins, history, relations with surrounding civilizations (Mesopotamia, Hatti, the Levant, Egypt, Cyprus, Crete, Mycenaean Greece), the numerous documents written in many languages, technical progress, artistic productions… A last section expands the research to the entire kingdom—something that has never been attempted before—and mentions the other sites explored in the Ugaritian territory.
This reference book is aimed to everyone with an interest in Near Eastern history.
Informations
Beyrouth, Presses de l’Ifpo, 2011
Collection : Bibliothèque archéologique et historique (BAH), tome 193
ISBN : 978-2-35159-180-2
546 pages