entity · text_ugarit_alashiya_letters
Ugarit–Alashiya correspondence
Also known as: Alashiya letters from Ugarit
Late Bronze Age letters linking Ugarit and Alashiya, including warnings about enemy ships and maritime danger.
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.
1250 BCE–1180 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides textual analysis
The Calm Before the Storm: Selected Writings of Itamar Singer on the Late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant — Itamar Singer (2011)Provides philological and archival context.
Locator: Final Ugarit correspondence studies - informs · documents 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 translations and Cypriot context.
Locator: Ugarit and Alashiya texts - 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)Supports Cypriot origin of selected correspondence.
Locator: Ugaritic Alashiya tablet fabrics
Research description
The correspondence is evidence for political communication and maritime crisis near the end of Ugarit. Relative archival order and the identity, origin, and scale of hostile ships remain uncertain.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides textual analysis
The Calm Before the Storm: Selected Writings of Itamar Singer on the Late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant — Itamar Singer (2011)Provides philological and archival context.
Locator: Final Ugarit correspondence studies - informs · documents 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 translations and Cypriot context.
Locator: Ugarit and Alashiya texts - 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)Supports Cypriot origin of selected correspondence.
Locator: Ugaritic Alashiya tablet fabrics