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This article deals with the socio-political dimension of public space in 13th-century bc Ugarit, with a particular focus on the city’s squares. Ugarit, located on the Syrian seacoast immediately north of modern Lattakia, is one of the best-documented towns in the ancient Levant and a touchstone case-study for urban design. In the following, I explore how urban space intersects with the events of the 13th century, when Ugarit was a thriving capital governed by a monarch who was a vassal to the Hittite Empire. Today, the correlation between urban design and governance in ancient cities is increasingly investigated using an “archaeopolitical” approach.1 According to
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Devoted to an examination of the civilizations of the Near East, the Journal of Near Eastern Studies has for 125 years published contributions from scholars of international reputation on the archaeology, art, history, languages, literatures, and religions of the Near East. Founded in 1884 as Hebraica, the journal was renamed twice over the course of the following century, each name change reflecting the growth and expansion of the fields covered by the publication. In 1895 it became the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, and in 1942 it received its present designation, the Journal of Near Eastern Studies. From an original emphasis on Old Testament studies in the nineteenth century.
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