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The palace, located in the north-west corner of the city, spanned an area of 6,500 square metres (70,000 sq ft). The palace area was surrounded by a fortified wall that dates back to the 15th-century BC. The palace's main gate was protected by an array of towers, dubbed the
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were constructed. The ground floor was used for administrative purposes and included offices, archives, storage and staff dwellings. The second floor housed the family quarters, and was accessed through twelve staircases. The palace had three entrances: the main gate on the northwest near the
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tablets were discovered as well. The tablets were organized by subject in different wings. They included administrative reports about Ugarit's dependencies, judicial records, official correspondence with other rulers and even practice tablets that new
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The palace consisted of ninety rooms divided between two floors. The rooms were built around four large courtyards and four smaller ones. The western end of the palace had a large garden. In the north side of the palace, three underground
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covering the walls. The fortified wall, which dates back to the 15th-century BC, was built with packed stones at the bottom and had an outward slope of 45 degrees.
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and only resumed in 1948. Between 1950 and 1955 Schaeffer led concentrated excavations at the palace which unearthed a vast corpus of tablets and artefacts.
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led ten excavation campaigns at the site which only covered the northwest corner. Excavations stopped with the advent of
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to an upper-class
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were excavated in the palace complex. The corpus included more than a 1,000 tablets written mostly in
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Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an "International Style" in the
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vase was found, partially damaged. The ornamentation on the vase depicts the wedding of Ugarit King
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The palace was built in four major stages between the 15th and 13th-century BC. It was built out of
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was the royal residence of the rulers of the ancient kingdom of
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162: 13th-century BC
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252:Condition
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168:Abandoned
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