Ammurapi

{{Infobox royalty

| name = Ammurapi

| succession = King of Ugarit

| reign = 1215-1180 BC

| birth_place = Ugarit

}}

Ammurapi (Hittite: 𒄠𒈬𒊏𒁉 am-mu-ra-pí) was the last Bronze Age ruler and king (c. 1215 to 1180 BC) of the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit. Ammurapi was a contemporary of the Hittite King Suppiluliuma II.

Attestations

He wrote a preserved vivid letter RS 18.147 (Nougayrol et al. (1968 Ugaritica V): 87-9 no. 24){{clarify|date=June 2019|reason=What is the meaning of this mysterious code? Does it belong in the first sentence of this article? Would it suffice to put it in the reference citation or in a footnote? How could its significance be made clear to readers unfamiliar with the topic of Ammurapi?}} in response to a plea for assistance from the king of Alashiya.{{sfn|Bryce|1998|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Agg5-lpVI2MC&pg=PA367 367]}}

Ammurapi wrote:

{{quote|text=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. {{cite book |first1=Jean |last1=Nougayrol |author-link=Jean Nougayrol |first2=Emmanuel |last2=Laroche |author2-link=Emmanuel Laroche |first3=Charles |last3=Virolleaud |author3-link=Charles Virolleaud |title=Ugaritica. V: nouveaux textes accadiens, hourrites et ugaritiques des archives et bibliothèques privées d'Ugarit |url=http://digital.library.stonybrook.edu/cdm/ref/collection/amar/id/7250 |year=1968 |pages=87–90 |issue=24 |publisher=Stony Brook University}}}}

This letter dramatically highlights the desperate situation facing Ugarit while it was also under attack by the invading Sea Peoples.

=Divorce=

Suppiluliuma II was responsible for the divorce settlement between Ammurapi and a Hittite woman,RS 17.226, 17.355 (PRU iv 208-210, Dossier VIII A.){{cite book |first=M. |last=Astour |title=Death in Mesopotamia |chapter=The Netherworld and Its Denizens in Ugarit |editor-first=Bendt |editor-last=Alster |location=Copenhagen |year=1980 |pages=227–238}} but it did not cause a problem between the Kingdom of Ugarit and the Hittite Empire;{{sfn|Bryce|1998|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Agg5-lpVI2MC&pg=PA363 363]}} instead it demonstrated the relationship between both kingdoms.{{sfn|Bryce|1998|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Agg5-lpVI2MC&pg=PA363 363]}}

=Bronze Age Collapse=

Ammurapi is the last known ruler of Ugarit. The city may have been destroyed around 1192-1190 BC.Kaniewski, David & Campo, Elise & Van Lerberghe, Karel & Boiy, Tom & Vansteenhuyse, Klaas & Jans, Greta & Nys, Karin & Weiss, Harvey & Otto, Thierry & Bretschneider, Joachim. (2011). The Sea Peoples, from Cuneiform Tablets to Carbon Dating. PloS one. 6. e20232. 10.1371/journal.pone.0020232. Ugarit would become one of the many states of the ancient Near East that were destroyed or abandoned during the Bronze Age collapse.

References

Bibliography

{{cite book |first=Trevor |last=Bryce |author-link=Trevor Bryce |title=The Kingdom of the Hittites |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Agg5-lpVI2MC |chapter=The Fall of the Kingdom and its Aftermath |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Agg5-lpVI2MC&pg=PA367 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1998 |page=367 |isbn=9780199240104}}

Category:Ugaritic kings

Category:13th-century BC monarchs

Category:12th-century BC monarchs

Category:Late Bronze Age collapse