This article is a product of the research project “Bureaucracy and Administrative Procedures in the Syrian Kingdom of Ugarit (14th to 12th centuries B.C.)” (FFI2015–67357–P) (MINECO/FEDER, UE), funded by the Spanish Ministry for Economic Affairs and Competitiveness within the National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation (I+D+I). I wish to express my thanks to Wilfred G. E. Watson for reading through the manuscript critically and translating it into English.

This article analyses about fifteen administrative texts from Ugarit, written in either the alphabetic or the syllabic script. Their interrelationship allows us to reconstruct, even if partially, the administrative procedures that produced them. To some extent, this set of documents seems to reflect the administrative aspect of what is known as ilku-service, the legal aspects of which have received particular attention

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