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Alashiya Redux

Was it Cyprus?

By James D. Muhly, Shelley Wachsmann, Robert S. Merrillees

YES
By James D. Muhly

Virtually all references to ancient Alashiya refer to copper, which is found in abundance on Cyprus. If Alashiya is not Cyprus, no one would be able to identify the source of the principal metal (with tin) of the Bronze Age.

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Endnotes

1.

My thanks to Anson Rainey for the translation of EA 114 that appears here.

2.

See also Shelley Wachsmann, “Is Cyprus Ancient Alashiya? New Evidence from an Egyptian Tablet,” Biblical Archaeologist 49 (1986), pp. 37–40; Aegeans in the Theban Tombs, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 20 (Leuven, the Netherlands: Peeters, 1987), pp. 99–102; and Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1998), pp. 295–296.