[EN] The administrative texts from Ugarit still pose important problems of interpretation. The present article deals with several of these problems: the absolute and relative chronology of this documentation as a whole, the ways in which administrative documentation has been lost, an attempt to quantify this loss of documents so that, finally, the quantity of administrative documentation available now can be reassessed in historical terms. We would like to suggest that the vast majority of the administrative texts preserved could belong to the final phase of the life of kingdom, possibly even up to its last one or two years. The closing paragraph will briefly bring together the conclu sions.

[FR] L’interprétation des textes administratifs d’Ugarit pose encore des problèmes importants. Le présent article traite de plusieurs de ces questions : les chronologies absolue et relative de l’ensemble de cette documentation, les modalités de la perte d’une partie de la documentation administrative, et enfin un essai de quantification des documents disparus, en vue de la réévaluation de la documentation administrative sur le plan historique. Nous suggérons que la grande majorité des textes administratifs conservés appartient à la phase finale de l’histoire du royaume, possiblement même à la dernière ou aux deux der nières années. Le dernier paragraphe rassemble les conclusion

This article is one result of the research project “Bureaucracy and Administrative Pro cedures 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 Af fairs 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 translating it into English, and also to Valérie Matoïan for her critical review of the manuscript, although the final responsibility is mine alone.

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