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RAS SHAMRA räs shäm’ rə. The name of a Syrian mound, ancient Ugarit, about seven m. N of Laodicea ad Mare on the Syrian coast, where, beginning in 1929, archeological finds were made which have been of enormous value for the study of Phoenician and Canaanite religion, inaugurating a new era in OT research. See Ugarit.