The evidence for metallurgical workshops of the 2nd millennium in Ugarit

As his book Copper and Tin was my first contact with Near Eastern metallurgy, it is a great pleasure for me to dedicate this modest paper concerning the metallurgy of Ugarit to James Muhly, whose studies have inspired so many scholars and students. According to C. F. A. Schaeffer and J.-C. Courtois, who were also familiar with the evidence from Enkomi, Ugarit was the location of an important metallurgical industry during the 2nd millennium BC (Yon 1997a for a summary of the excavations since 1930). ‘Workshops’ were frequently mentioned in the publications, especially in the tranchée ville sud (Courtois 1979a;