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Court of Ugarit
The Court
Converse with
Niqmaddu II
King of Ugarit · alliance with Suppiluliuma I · shifted the city into the Hittite sphere · grandfather of diplomatic literature
c. 1350–1315 BCE
Converse with
Attenu-purullenu
High priest of Baal · codifier of the Baal Cycle · teacher of Ilimilku · temple theologian
14th century BCE
Converse with
Ilimilku
Court scribe · author of the surviving Baal Cycle tablets · the first named literary author in the western Levant
14th century BCE
Converse with
Urtenu
Senior official · private house archive · merchant and diplomat · corresponded with Carchemish, Egypt, and Alashiya
13th century BCE
Converse with
The Egyptian Envoy
Diplomatic representative · letter-carrier · linguistic intermediary · Egyptian chancellor Bay in correspondence
13th–12th century BCE
Converse with
Ammurapi
Last king of Ugarit · author of the final diplomatic letters · wrote in correct protocol while the city burned
c. 1215–1185 BCE