event · evt_ugarit_alashiya_enemy_ship_warning
Ugaritic and Alashiyan correspondence on enemy ships
Letters associated with Ugarit's final decades mention enemy ships and communications involving Alashiya.
What is the evidence?
observation
Letters associated with Ugarit's final decades mention enemy ships and communications involving Alashiya.Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1210 BCE–1180 BCE
Precision: approximate
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- informs · provides textual analysis
An Ugaritic Letter to Amenophis III Concerning Trade with Alašiya — Edward Lipiński (1977)Documents one strand of Ugarit–Alashiya correspondence.
Locator: Ugaritic letter and Alashiya trade/diplomacy - informs · provides textual context
The Calm Before the Storm: Selected Writings of Itamar Singer on the Late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant — Itamar Singer (2011)Places the letters in their final historical setting.
Locator: Ugarit and late eastern Mediterranean crisis
Interpretation and caveats
The correspondence attests perceived maritime danger and diplomatic exchange, but does not identify the attackers or prove a single coordinated invasion of Cyprus and Syria.
Event context
Classification
Event type: diplomatic warning and maritime crisis
Evidence layer: textual
Timeline role: cross regional context
People and places
Locations: Ugarit–Alashiya correspondence, Ugarit / Ras Shamra, Alashiya
Why it matters to the timeline
Directly links Alashiya to Ugarit's final diplomatic and maritime-security network.
Research notes
- Documents one strand of Ugarit–Alashiya correspondence. Role: provides textual analysis. Locator: Ugaritic letter and Alashiya trade/diplomacy.
- Places the letters in their final historical setting. Role: provides textual context. Locator: Ugarit and late eastern Mediterranean crisis.
- Provides corpus context. Role: provides textual corpus. Locator: Ugaritic Alashiya letters.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides textual analysis
An Ugaritic Letter to Amenophis III Concerning Trade with Alašiya — Edward Lipiński (1977)Documents one strand of Ugarit–Alashiya correspondence.
Locator: Ugaritic letter and Alashiya trade/diplomacy - informs · provides textual context
The Calm Before the Storm: Selected Writings of Itamar Singer on the Late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant — Itamar Singer (2011)Places the letters in their final historical setting.
Locator: Ugarit and late eastern Mediterranean crisis - informs · provides 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 corpus context.
Locator: Ugaritic Alashiya letters
Referenced records
- Alashiya · entity
- Ugarit–Alashiya correspondence · entity
- Ugarit / Ras Shamra · entity