Copper smelting in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The excavations at Politiko Phorades

From: Near Eastern Archaeology | Date: December 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

Now I have sent to you 500 (talents) of copper As a present to my brother have I sent it to you.

Let my brother not take it to heart that the amount of copper is small for in my land the hand of Nergal, my lord, has killed all the men of my land and so there is no one to produce copper.

The mid-fourteenth- century BCE royal archives of Amarna yielded a number of letters between the king of Alashiya (Cyprus) and the pharaoh in Egypt. The letter quoted to the above, known as EA (El Amarna) 35 is especially interesting because it mentions a large shipment of copper, states clearly that copper ...

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