Ura
Ura was a Bronze Age and Iron Age city-state and port in southern Anatolia, the location of which has not been clearly established.
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Ura is mentioned, among other things, in the Chronicle of Neriglissar . After that it was on the other side of Hume / Qu'e , the Cilician plain. According to reports from Ugarit , the Ura merchants were very rich. They acquired numerous properties in the city. During the famine in the last years of the Hittite Empire, grain was brought from Ugarit to Ura.
location
The traditional names of seamen from Ura are mostly Luwian , some Hurrian or Mitannic.
- William Mitchell Ramsay equated Ura with Olba , which, however, is not by the sea.
- Friedrich Cornelius wanted to identify Ura with Ayas ( Elaiussa Sebaste ).
- WF Albright suggested Silifke , followed by A. Lemaire and H. Lozachmeur
- HG Güterbock: mouth of the Kalykadnos
- R. Beal favors Kelenderis at Aydıncık .
Ruler
literature
- Richard H. Beal: The Location of Cilician Ura In: Anatolian Studies 42, 1992, pp. 65-73.
Individual evidence
- ^ Itamar Singer : Western Anatolia in the thirteenth century BC according to the Hittite sources. Special Number in Honor of the Seventy-Fifth Birthday of Dr. Richard Barnett. Anatolian Studies 33, 1983, p. 217
- ↑ A. Goetze: Cilicians. In: Journal of Cuneiform Studies 16, 1962, pp. 48-50
- ↑ American Journal of Archeology 65, 1961, p. 400; BASOR 163, 1961, p. 44, footnote 42
- ^ Journal of Near Eastern Studies 45, 1986, pp. 3-20
- ^ Richard H. Beal: The Location of Cilician Ura. In: Anatolian Studies 42, 1992, p. 69