Ashmolean Museum: AMULET: Cypriot Copper 0

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Cypriot Copper: Mysteries of the Bronze Age

	The Bronze Age in Cyprus What is Bronze? When was the Bronze Age? Copper in Bronze Age Cyprus The Copper Trade: Ingots, Hoards and Shipwrecks Weapons, Tools and Ritual Remains Textual Evidence Bibliography
	a-hi ki-I s[i-]he-ir eru I-na libbi -ka la-a I-sa-ki-in sum-ma I-na mati-ia I-du-uk u e-bi-is eri ia-nu amelut a sa mati-ia I-du-uk u e-bi-is eri ia-nu	Let not my brother take it to heart that the copper is little. For in my land the hand of Nergal, my lord, has killed all the men of my land, and so there is no one here to produce copper
	Letter 35. King of Alasia to the king of Egypt, No. 3. From The Tell El-Amarna Tablets
	... to Ancient Cyprus Presentation
Image: Bronze statuette of female figurine standing on an oxhide ingot, no provenance (AN1971.888)

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