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{{Infobox royalty
| name           = Ammurapi
| succession     = King of Ugarit
| reign          = 1215-1180 BC
| predecessor    = [[Niqmaddu III]]
| birth_place    = [[Ugarit]]
}}
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'''Ammurapi''' ([[Hittite language|Hittite]]: 𒄠𒈬𒊏𒁉 ''am-mu-ra-pí'') was the last [[Bronze Age]] ruler and king (c. 1215 to 1180 BC) of the ancient [[Syria]]n city of [[Ugarit]]. Ammurapi was a contemporary of the [[Hittites|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 [[Hittites|Hatti]], and all my ships are in the [[Lukka lands|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. <ref>{{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]]}}</ref>}}

This letter dramatically highlights the desperate situation facing Ugarit while it was also under attack by the invading [[Sea People]]s.

===Divorce===
Suppiluliuma II was responsible for the divorce settlement between Ammurapi and a Hittite woman,<ref>RS 17.226, 17.355 (PRU iv 208-210, Dossier VIII A.)</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>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.</ref> Ugarit would become one of the many states of the [[ancient Near East]] that were destroyed or abandoned during the [[Bronze Age collapse]].

==References==
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== Bibliography ==
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* {{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}}
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[[Category:Ugaritic kings]]
[[Category:13th-century BC monarchs]]
[[Category:12th-century BC monarchs]]
[[Category:Late Bronze Age collapse]]

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