The Claremont Ras Shamra tablets

Fisher Loren R.

Published by Pontificum Institutum Biblicum, Roma, Italia, Analecta Orientalia 48,, 1971

About this Item

Pontificum Institutum Biblicum, Roma, Italia, Analecta Orientalia 48,1971, in 4 (28 x 23 cm), 58 pages. 11 photographs of manuscripts outside text. soft cover. +++++++ The Claremont Ras Shamra Tablets contains the first scholarly publication of six texts, two in Ugaritic and four texts from Ugarit that were written in Akkadian. This text includes photographs of manuscripts, translations and commentary. Ugarit was an ancient port city in the eastern Mediterranean at the site of modern Ras Shamra near Latakia in Syria. Ugarit's location was forgotten until 1928 when an old tomb was found in this location. Excavations have since revealed an important city with a royal palace of 90 rooms including two private libraries that contained diplomatic, legal, economic, administrative, scholastic, literary and religious texts. During excavations in 1958, yet another library of tablets was uncovered. These were sold on the black market and not immediately recovered. The Claremont Ras Shamra Tablets are now housed at the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, California - good condition.

Seller Inventory # 5141

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Claremont Ras Shamra tablets
• Publisher: Pontificum Institutum Biblicum, Roma, Italia, Analecta Orientalia 48,
• Publication Date: 1971
• Binding: BOOK PAPERBACK