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Amarna Alashiya correspondence
Also known as: Alashiya letters, EA Alashiya letters
Fourteenth-century BCE diplomatic letters exchanged between the ruler of Alashiya and Egypt.
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.
1370 BCE–1320 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides primary evidence
EA 33: Letter from the King of Alashiya to the King of Egypt — Cuneiform Digital Library InitiativeDirect artifact-level evidence.
Locator: EA 33 and linked Amarna corpus - informs · provides provenance evidence
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)Links tablet production to Cyprus.
Locator: Petrography of Alashiya tablets - informs · contextualizes
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)Places individual letters in the wider dossier.
Locator: Translations and historical commentary
Research description
The dossier attests rulers, diplomatic parity claims, copper shipments, gifts, disease, and maritime relations. It does not identify a capital, precise territorial extent, or unchanging island-wide administration.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides primary evidence
EA 33: Letter from the King of Alashiya to the King of Egypt — Cuneiform Digital Library InitiativeDirect artifact-level evidence.
Locator: EA 33 and linked Amarna corpus - informs · provides provenance evidence
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)Links tablet production to Cyprus.
Locator: Petrography of Alashiya tablets - informs · contextualizes
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)Places individual letters in the wider dossier.
Locator: Translations and historical commentary