Bronze Age World

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Type: academic collected studies
Publication: Society of Biblical Literature
Peer reviewed: Yes

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relationship Ugarit–Alashiya correspondence — refers to — Alashiya
Evidence confidence: near certain
informs · contextualizes · Late Ugarit and Alashiya correspondence
Places the letters in their historical setting.
causal hypothesis Network disruption reduced bulk copper exports
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · Late eastern Mediterranean political crisis
Documents external network disruption.
date assertion Ugarit / Ras Shamra — date assertion
informs · contextualizes · Ugarit final correspondence
Provides textual chronology and interpretation.
entity Ugarit / Ras Shamra
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · contextualizes · Ugarit final correspondence
Provides textual chronology and interpretation.
geography assertion Ugarit / Ras Shamra — geography assertion
informs · locates · Ras Shamra archaeological site locator
Representative point for the archaeological site. It is not a settlement footprint, harbour boundary, cemetery extent, or political territory.
date assertion Disintegration of the Hittite imperial system — date assertion
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides source criticism · Late Hittite and Levantine texts
Frames the evidence and uncertainties.
relationship Disintegration of the Hittite imperial system — concerns — Hittite campaign texts concerning Alashiya
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides source criticism · Late Hittite and Levantine texts
Frames the evidence and uncertainties.
event Disintegration of the Hittite imperial system
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides source criticism · Late Hittite and Levantine texts
Frames the evidence and uncertainties.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides source criticism · Late Hittite and Levantine texts
Frames the evidence and uncertainties.
entity Ugarit–Alashiya correspondence
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · provides textual analysis · Final Ugarit correspondence studies
Provides philological and archival context.
date assertion Ugarit–Alashiya correspondence — date assertion
informs · provides textual analysis · Final Ugarit correspondence studies
Provides philological and archival context.
event Hittite campaigns or claimed control involving Alashiya
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · provides textual analysis · Late Hittite texts concerning Alashiya
Reviews campaign claims and late imperial context.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · provides textual analysis · Late Hittite texts concerning Alashiya
Reviews campaign claims and late imperial context.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · provides textual analysis · Late Hittite texts concerning Alashiya
Reviews campaign claims and late imperial context.
relationship Hittite campaigns or claimed control involving Alashiya — concerns — Alashiya
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · provides textual analysis · Late Hittite texts concerning Alashiya
Reviews campaign claims and late imperial context.
relationship Hittite campaigns or claimed control involving Alashiya — concerns — Hittite campaign texts concerning Alashiya
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · provides textual analysis · Late Hittite texts concerning Alashiya
Reviews campaign claims and late imperial context.
date assertion Hittite campaigns or claimed control involving Alashiya — date assertion
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · provides textual analysis · Late Hittite texts concerning Alashiya
Reviews campaign claims and late imperial context.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides textual context · Ugarit and late eastern Mediterranean crisis
Places the letters in their final historical setting.
relationship Ugaritic and Alashiyan correspondence on enemy ships — occurred at or affected — Ugarit / Ras Shamra
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides textual context · Ugarit and late eastern Mediterranean crisis
Places the letters in their final historical setting.
relationship Ugaritic and Alashiyan correspondence on enemy ships — concerns — Alashiya
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides textual context · Ugarit and late eastern Mediterranean crisis
Places the letters in their final historical setting.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides textual context · Ugarit and late eastern Mediterranean crisis
Places the letters in their final historical setting.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides textual context · Ugarit and late eastern Mediterranean crisis
Places the letters in their final historical setting.
relationship Hittite campaign texts concerning Alashiya — refers to — Alashiya
Evidence confidence: near certain
informs · provides textual context · Alashiya in late Hittite texts
Evaluates the corpus and political setting.
event Ugaritic and Alashiyan correspondence on enemy ships
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides textual context · Ugarit and late eastern Mediterranean crisis
Places the letters in their final historical setting.
relationship Ugaritic and Alashiyan correspondence on enemy ships — concerns — Ugarit–Alashiya correspondence
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides textual context · Ugarit and late eastern Mediterranean crisis
Places the letters in their final historical setting.
date assertion Ugaritic and Alashiyan correspondence on enemy ships — date assertion
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides textual context · Ugarit and late eastern Mediterranean crisis
Places the letters in their final historical setting.
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: high
supports · provides late case study · Late Hittite and Ugaritic context
Shows changed thirteenth-century conditions.