PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage.
More than three hundred objects and fragments of objects found at Ras Shamra and Minet
el-Beida by C.F.A. Schaeffer during the first years of his excavations are stored in the showcases and reserves of the Musee d'Archeologie Nationale (MAN) of Saint Germain en Laye. Some of this material was published by Schaeffer in his first excavation reports, but the majority of the ceramic, stone and metal objects from the collection were never published. Moreover, even when the material was published in excavation reports in the journal Syria, several drawings of the ceramics are inaccurate and need to be re-published. This material is coming from two precise areas of the 1929 - 1931 excavations: the harbor town of Minet el-Beida and the Acropolis area in Ugarit. These two material groups need further study to improve our knowledge of these zones. Indeed, except for preliminary reports in Syria and in Ugaritica, these early excavated areas were never fully published. The study and publication of this collection will complete the intensive effort of the Ras
Shamra-Ugarit team members to improve our knowledge of former excavations. The planned work will not only publish the collection catalog itself, but will also try to relate the finds from the MAN collection with the unpublished excavation notebooks of Schaeffer.
The publication project is directed by Caroline Sauvage.