Editing Caphtor (section)

===Ras Shamra Texts===
An [[Akkadian (language)|Akkadian]] text from the archives of [[Ugarit]] (modern Ras Shamra, Syria) contains a possible reference to Caphtor: it mentions a ship that is exempt from duty when arriving from a place whose name is written with the [[Akkadian cuneiform]] signs ''KUR.DUGUD.RI''. ''KUR'' is a determinative indicating a country, while one possible reading of the sign ''DUGUD'' is {{Transliteration|akk|kabtu}}, whence the name of the place would be ''Kabturi'', which resembles Caphtor.

Within [[Ugaritic]] inscriptions from the [[Amarna]] period, ''k-p-t-r'' is mentioned and understood to be Caphtor: A poem uses ''k-p-t-r'' as a [[Parallelism (rhetoric)|parallel]] for Egypt (''H-k-p-t'') naming it as the home of the god [[Kothar-wa-Khasis]] the Ugaritic equivalent of the Egyptian god [[Ptah]].<ref name="Strange"/> Prior to the discovery of the reference to ''H-k-p-t'' scholars had already considered the possibility of ''iy Caphtor'' found in Jeremiah being the Semitic cognate of "Egypt".<ref>[[Edward Wells (theologian)|Edward Wells]], ''An historical geography of the Old and New Testament'', Clarendon Press, 1809</ref>