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… after the king and queen, with their suite, had abandoned their capital Boghazkeuy(1) and had entrusted themselves, for their transport by sea, to ships of Ugarit travelling in convoy under protection.
Let us examine the other documents contemporary with the end of the Hittite Empire. RS. 20.255 A, fig. RS. 20.255 A, fig. [illegible] R.S. 20.255 A, fig. [handwritten: 30] above No. 30, p.100.- A prince or a dignitary demands from the king of Ugarit, for the Hittite king, the dispatch of two kinds of rare stones, already requested beforehand and not supplied(2).
The main object of the message is formulated in the paragraph central to the letter, in the following manner: "On the other hand, your ships and you aboard them, come to the Sun, your master". As the translator has remarked (3), this sentence implies that the Hittite king then resided in the coastal region, sans doubt south or south-west of Anatolia, thus far from his capi- (1) This was moreover not the first time such an abandonment
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain