primary-source collection and commentary · src_knapp_1996_sources_alashiya
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
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- Type
- edited source collection
- Publication
- Altamont, New York: Greece and Cyprus Research Center
Records informed by this source
- date assertion Amarna Alashiya correspondence — date assertioninforms · contextualizes · Translations and historical commentary
Places individual letters in the wider dossier.
- entity Amarna Alashiya correspondenceEvidence confidence: very highinforms · contextualizes · Translations and historical commentary
Places individual letters in the wider dossier.
- entity Hittite campaign texts concerning AlashiyaEvidence confidence: highinforms · documents textual corpus · Hittite references to Alashiya
Provides translations and discussion.
- date assertion Hittite campaign texts concerning Alashiya — date assertioninforms · documents textual corpus · Hittite references to Alashiya
Provides translations and discussion.
- date assertion Alashiya — date assertioninforms · documents textual corpus · Near Eastern textual sources
Provides source-level attestations.
- entity AlashiyaEvidence confidence: very highinforms · documents textual corpus · Near Eastern textual sources
Provides source-level attestations.
- entity Ugarit–Alashiya correspondenceEvidence confidence: very highinforms · documents textual corpus · Ugarit and Alashiya texts
Provides translations and Cypriot context.
- date assertion Ugarit–Alashiya correspondence — date assertioninforms · documents textual corpus · Ugarit and Alashiya texts
Provides translations and Cypriot context.
- relationship Ugarit–Alashiya correspondence — refers to — AlashiyaEvidence confidence: near certaininforms · provides text corpus · Ugaritic Alashiya texts
Collects the relevant textual references.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides textual corpus · Ugaritic Alashiya letters
Provides corpus context.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides textual corpus · Ugaritic Alashiya letters
Provides corpus context.
- date assertion Alashiya–Egypt copper diplomacy in the Amarna letters — date assertionEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides textual corpus · Amarna Alashiya dossier
Places EA 33 among related texts.
- event Alashiya–Egypt copper diplomacy in the Amarna lettersEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides textual corpus · Amarna Alashiya dossier
Places EA 33 among related texts.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides textual corpus · Amarna Alashiya dossier
Places EA 33 among related texts.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides textual corpus · Amarna Alashiya dossier
Places EA 33 among related texts.
- event Hittite campaigns or claimed control involving AlashiyaEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides textual corpus · Hittite Alashiya texts
Provides translations and source criticism.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides textual corpus · Hittite Alashiya texts
Provides translations and source criticism.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides textual corpus · Hittite Alashiya texts
Provides translations and source criticism.
- event Ugaritic and Alashiyan correspondence on enemy shipsEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides textual corpus · Ugaritic Alashiya letters
Provides corpus context.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides textual corpus · Ugaritic Alashiya letters
Provides corpus context.
- relationship Alashiya–Egypt copper diplomacy in the Amarna letters — concerns — AlashiyaEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides textual corpus · Amarna Alashiya dossier
Places EA 33 among related texts.
- relationship Alashiya–Egypt copper diplomacy in the Amarna letters — concerns — Amarna Alashiya correspondenceEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides textual corpus · Amarna Alashiya dossier
Places EA 33 among related texts.
- relationship Alashiya — proposed identification with — CyprusEvidence confidence: highinforms · supports · Diachronic textual dossier
Synthesizes the textual identification problem.
- ranked model How was Late Bronze Age Cyprus or Alashiya politically organized?informs · supports model comparison · Diachronic textual dossier
Provides the external political terminology and its changing contexts.
- claim The balance of textual, geological, petrographic, and exchange evidence strongly supports identifying Late Bronze Age Alashiya with Cyprus or a polity centred on Cyprus.Evidence confidence: highsupports · supports · Alashiya textual corpus
Synthesizes the textual identification problem.
- claim References to Alashiya across Egyptian, Ugaritic, and Hittite texts need not describe an institutionally unchanged polity over every century of their attestation.Evidence confidence: highsupports · supports · Diachronic Alashiya corpus
Shows changing textual contexts.