relationship · rel_alashiya_proposed_identification_with_cyprus
rel_alashiya_proposed_identification_with_cyprus
Multiple evidence classes support a Cypriot identification, but this edge is not a polygon, a capital assignment, or proof that one polity governed the entire island continuously.
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.
Research description
Multiple evidence classes support a Cypriot identification, but this edge is not a polygon, a capital assignment, or proof that one polity governed the entire island continuously.
Evidence and sources
- informs · 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 and evaluates candidate regions.
Locator: Petrographic analysis of Alashiyan tablets - informs · 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: Diachronic textual dossier