claim · claim_alashiya_identification_with_cyprus
The balance of textual, geological, petrographic, and exchange evidence strongly supports identifying Late Bronze Age Alashiya with Cyprus or a polity centred on Cyprus.
The balance of textual, geological, petrographic, and exchange evidence strongly supports identifying Late Bronze Age Alashiya with Cyprus or a polity centred on Cyprus.
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Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
- supports · supports
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 a Cypriot origin for the tablets and narrows candidate clay regions.
Locator: Petrographic results and conclusions - supports · supports
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)Synthesizes the textual identification problem.
Locator: Alashiya textual corpus - supports · supports
The Production and Trade of Cypriot Copper in the Late Bronze Age: An Analysis of the Evidence — Vasiliki Kassianidou (2013)Supports the island's capacity to supply the documented copper.
Locator: Cypriot copper production and trade
Contradicting sources
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Referenced records
- Cyprus · entity
- Alashiya · entity
- Amarna Alashiya correspondence · entity