date assertion · DATE-pol_alashiya_textual_polity-PREFERRED
Date assertion for DATE-pol_alashiya_textual_polity-PREFERRED
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Evidence and sources
- informs · supports identification
The Location of Alashiya: New Evidence from Petrographic Investigation of Alashiyan Tablets from El-Amarna and Ugarit — Yuval Goren, Shlomo Bunimovitz, Israel Finkelstein, Nadav Na’aman (2003)Supports Cyprus identification and candidate production zones.
Locator: Tablet petrography and geopolitical discussion - informs · documents textual corpus
Sources for the History of Cyprus, Volume II: Near Eastern and Aegean Texts from the Third to the First Millennia BC — A. Bernard Knapp (1996)Provides source-level attestations.
Locator: Near Eastern textual sources - informs · provides primary evidence
EA 33: Letter from the King of Alashiya to the King of Egypt — Cuneiform Digital Library InitiativeProvides a direct royal-letter example.
Locator: EA 33 artifact record
Referenced records
- Alashiya · entity