The location of Alashiya: New evidence from petrographic investigation of Alashiyan tablets from El-Amarna and Ugarit

American Journal of Archaeology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 233-255

  Goren, Yuval ^a   Bunimovitz, Shlomo ^a   Finkelstein, Israel ^a   Na'aman, Nadav ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.3764/aja.107.2.233     Document Type: Article

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