Ammurapi

Last king of Ugarit (r. c. 1215-1180 BCE). Mortal class — Ugaritic kings are not divinized in the surviving textual record. Vassal of the Hittite Great King Suppiluliuma II; married briefly to Eḫli-Nikkal, daughter of Suppiluliuma II. The famous RS 18.147 letter describing Sea Peoples ships burning Ugaritic cities was being baked in the kiln at the moment of Ugarit's destruction — frozen in mid-baking, never delivered. Died with the destruction of Ugarit c. 1185-1180 BCE; the city was never reoccupied. **Already dead by c. 1172 BCE** — added as historical anchor for the Bronze Age Collapse era and as the Levantine tradition's representative figure of the period.

Epithets

• last king of Ugarit latin · Ammurapi · historicalThe final king of Ugarit, who pleaded for aid as the Sea Peoples bore down upon his coastThe Ugaritic correspondence (RS 18.147 and the last archive) (primary)

Relations

• vassal of: Suppiluliuma IIMultiple Ugarit-Hatti correspondence tablets (primary)
• spouse: Eḫli-Nikkal (daughter of Suppiluliuma II of Hatti; their marriage ended in divorce, supervised by Talmi-Teššub of Carchemish) · HittiteHittite-Carchemish-Ugarit divorce-settlement tablets (primary)

Sources

• existence: Ras Shamra archives: RS 34.129, RS L 1, RS 20.238, RS 20.18, RS 18.147, RS 86.2230, RS 88.2011, RS 94.2530, RS 94.2523, etc. (primary)
• destruction-of-Ugarit: Ras Shamra excavations; Late Helladic IIIB-IIIC ceramic horizon; Merneptah sword; 21 January 1192 BCE eclipse; radiocarbon analysis (primary)