Editing Canaan (section)

==== Other Late Bronze Age mentions ====
Text RS 20.182 from [[Ugarit]] is a copy of a letter of the king of Ugarit to [[Ramesses II]] concerning money paid by "the sons of the land of Ugarit" to the "foreman of the sons of the land of Canaan (''*kn'ny'')" According to Jonathan Tubb, this suggests that the people of Ugarit, contrary to much modern opinion, considered themselves to be non-Canaanite.<ref name="JonTubb" />{{rp|16}} The other Ugarit reference, KTU 4.96, shows a list of traders assigned to royal estates, one of the estates having three Ugaritans, an Ashdadite, an Egyptian and a Canaanite.{{sfn|Na'aman|2005|pp=110–120}}

=====Ashur tablets=====
A Middle [[Ktav Ashuri|Assyrian]] letter during the reign of [[Shalmaneser I]] includes a reference to the "travel to Canaan" of an Assyrian official.{{sfn|Na'aman|2005|pp=110–120}}

=====Hattusa letters=====
Four references are known from Hattusa:{{sfn|Na'aman|2005|pp=110–120}}
* An evocation to the Cedar Gods: Includes reference to Canaan alongside Sidon, Tyre and possibly Amurru
* KBo XXVIII 1: [[Ramesses II]] letter to [[Hattusili III]], in which Ramesses suggested he would meet "his brother" in Canaan and bring him to Egypt
* KUB III 57 (also KUB III 37 + KBo I 17): Broken text which may refer to Canaan as an Egyptian sub-district
* KBo I 15+19: [[Ramesses II]] letter to [[Hattusili III]], describing Ramesses' visit to the "land of Canaan on his way to Kinza and Harita