- Ammurapi
Ammurapi was the last
Bronze Age ruler and king of the Ancient Syrian city ofUgarit who ca. 1215 - 1180 BC. Ammurapi was a contemporary of the Hittite KingSuppiluliuma II . He wrote a vivid letter (RS 18.147) in response to a plea for assistance from the king ofAlasiya which has been preserved. [Trevor Bryce, The Kingdom of the Hittites, Oxford University Press, 1998. p.367] It dramatically highlights the desperate situation facing Ugarit while it was also under attack by the invadingSea People s.Ammurapi wrote:
: "My father behold, the enemy's ships came (here); my cities(?) were burned, and they did evil things in my country. Does not my father know that all my troops and chariots(?) are in the Land of
Hatti , and all my ships are in the Land of Lukka?...Thus, the country is abandoned to itself. May my father know it: the seven ships of the enemy that came here inflicted much damage upon us." [Jean Nougaryol et. al. (1968) Ugaritica V: 87-90 no.24]Ugarit would become one of many Ancient Near Eastern states that were destroyed or abandoned during the
Bronze Age collapse .References
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