Archaeological evidence from Ugarit shows that a lot of goods were imported to this kingdom from Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Cyprus, the Aegean, the Syrian coast and inland, Egypt and other countries, but only the written sources can give us a clear picture of the amounts of goods, the trade-routes, methods of transportation, the structure of prices etc.
We shall not enter here into a discussion concerning all the goods and their prices known to us from the alphabetic-Ugaritic and Akkadian texts from Ugarit; we shall deal here with only one of the principal goods, the metals, and study the question of transportation of commercial goods in this kingdom in the XIV–XIII centuries B.C. Unfortunately we do not yet know the prices of grain in Ugarit, and therefore this basic product is not included in the study of prices.