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46 E46 FThe tablets relating to Cyprus coming from from the epistolary archives of Rap'anu, — Among the four documents from the archives of Rap'anu relating to the "affairs" of Cyprus, one the oldest (R.S. 20.168) constitutes the draft or copy of a letter addressed to the king of Alasia by Niqmadu III who reigned towards the end of the 13the century ; one the most other recent (R.S. 20.18, fig . . . ; above no. 22, p. 83) — Among the four documents exchanged between by the king of Cyprus and his spokesman or first minister Ešuwara and Hammourapi, with the last king of Ugarit before the occupation of the island by the Peoples of the North and of the Sea, and, we will see, more or less immediately before this event, the oldest the oldest, (R.S. 20.18, fig . . . ; and above no. 22, p. 83) constitutes the draft or the copy of a letter addressed to the king of Alasia by the king Niqmadu III, the penultimate king known of Ugarit who reigned at the end of the 13the century. There is no question but of supplies of olive oil and of its their settlement. Nothing seems, apparently, to have yet disturbed the peace of the two countries. What strikes, is the elaborate protocol that puts the address of
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