« Ougarit, l’Égypte et les "Phéniciens" : divinités protectrices et guérisseuses – lecture d’images », Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 2014, III (juillet-octobre), p. 1201-1223. By Valérie MATOÏAN

https://www.academia.edu/33566371/_Ougarit_l_%C3%89gypte_et_les_Ph%C3%A9niciens_divinit%C3%A9s_protectrices_et_gu%C3%A9risseuses_lecture_d_images_Comptes_rendus_de_l_Acad%C3%A9mie_des_Inscriptions_et_Belles_Lettres_2014_III_juillet_octobre_p_1201_1223?nav_from=ed6ba301-9deb-46c9-9aac-0c59e9af7563 Studies on the religious fact in Ugaritic society occupy a prominent place among the ongoing research carried out within the framework of the work of the Syrian-French Archaeological Mission of Ras Shamra-Ugarit. While the interest aroused by the religious question is largely linked to the exceptional textual documentation available on this subject, archeology brings its share of information and documents, in particular, subjects on which the texts do not provide information directly. Thus, recent work has made it possible to better understand the place held by divine figures of Egyptian origin in the field of iconography and the realia of magic in Ugarit, a subject that is still too little addressed in the field of Ugaritic studies on material culture. We will take here two files, relating to the figures of the god Bes and the Egyptian hippopotamus goddess, who have been undervalued so far in studies on religious iconography in Ugarit. From a diachronic perspective, this documentation helps to clarify the history of the dissemination in the Mediterranean of divine figures for which essentially only figurative documents are available. It allows us to better understand the genesis of phenomena, more developed and better documented in the first millennium BC. J.-C., especially in the Phoenician-Punic iconography. This intrusion into the domain of the Ugaritic materia magica thus brings resonant data with what we know of the Phoenico-Punic civilization which opened to the cults of the Egyptian divinities, especially in connection with magic, as had been stressed Jean Leclant in his analysis of The Phoenicians and Egypt at the Second Congress of Phoenician and Punic Studies. ...