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Wikipedia, "Ugarit"

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A community-maintained tertiary reference on Ugarit, directly examined. Its strength is a precise destruction date bracketing the whole surviving textual corpus and a named excavator with a named excavation year; its limit is a Wikipedia community article rather than a Ugaritic-studies monograph, which is why it sits at reliability tier three.

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Assessment
Reliability Tier
3
Bare Wikipedia community article, tier 3, matching this corpus's settled precedent for this source class.
Notes
Wikipedia's article on Ugarit, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for the Late Bronze Age collapse destruction date in the twelfth century BCE, the Ugaritic language's attestation window from the fourteenth through the twelfth century BCE, the 1928 accidental discovery by a plowing peasant and Claude Schaeffer's 1929 Mission de Ras Shamra excavations, the site's dual Akkadian and Ugaritic scribal system, and named surviving poetic works including the Legend of Keret, the Legend of Danel and the Baal tales.
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Wikipedia contributors
Publisher
Wikipedia
Publication Year
2026
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugarit
Source Type
reference
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Ugarit, Cities

This source names Ugarit directly: "tertiary reference on Ugarit, directly examined."

Source Wikipedia, "Ugarit"Wikipedia contributors
Ugaritic, Languages

This source names Ugaritic directly: "community article rather than a Ugaritic-studies monograph, which is why it sits at reliability tier three."

Source Wikipedia, "Ugarit"Wikipedia contributors
Claims Backed By This Source (21 claims)

This source backs 21 claims across the atlas. As facts: 14 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Prayers, 11 claims: 6 well-attested, 5 general references.
  • Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
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