claim · claim_alashiya_texts_not_one_unchanging_polity
References to Alashiya across Egyptian, Ugaritic, and Hittite texts need not describe an institutionally unchanged polity over every century of their attestation.
References to Alashiya across Egyptian, Ugaritic, and Hittite texts need not describe an institutionally unchanged polity over every century of their attestation.
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Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
- 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)Shows changing textual contexts.
Locator: Diachronic Alashiya corpus - supports · provides case study
EA 33: Letter from the King of Alashiya to the King of Egypt — Cuneiform Digital Library InitiativeAttests one fourteenth-century ruler.
Locator: Amarna royal letter - supports · provides late case study
The Calm Before the Storm: Selected Writings of Itamar Singer on the Late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant — Itamar Singer (2011)Shows changed thirteenth-century conditions.
Locator: Late Hittite and Ugaritic context
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Referenced records
- Alashiya · entity
- Amarna Alashiya correspondence · entity
- Ugarit–Alashiya correspondence · entity
- Hittite campaign texts concerning Alashiya · entity