HOUSING ESTATE

Designed on a plane relatively similar to that of the Royal Palace, the residences of the rich Ougaritains offered the particularity of hosting both the living and their deceased ancestors. An opening to the ground of a small piece of each house allowed to win the burial chamber by a stair of stairs. The most beautiful example of this joint arrangement at most of the major residences is located in the house of Rapanou, which is a town of the city, whose neighbour, a Dénommé, was responsible for the Ugarit market. The houses have delivered various, often very luxurious, objects of local, foreign, or even imitation bills such as Egyptian beetles and ivories.