Nuribta — Nuribta, also Nuribda, was a city, or city state located in the vicinity of Magiddo in Israel, in historical Canaan during the time of the Amarna letters correspondence, a 15 20 year period of about 1350 1335 BC. The majority of the Amarna… … Wikipedia
Prostration formula — In the 1350 BC correspondence of 382 ndash;letters, called the Amarna letters, the Prostration formula is usually the opening subservient remarks to the addressee, the Egyptian pharaoh. The formula is based on Prostration , namely reverence and… … Wikipedia
Labaya — (also transliterated as Labayu or Lib ayu) was a Canaanite warlord who lived contemporaneously with Pharaoh Akhenaten (14th century BCE). Labaya is mentioned in several of the Amarna Letters (abbreviated EA , for el Amarna ), which is practically … Wikipedia
Hannathon — Hannathon, and of the 1350 1335 BC Amarna letters, Hinnatuna, or Hinnatuni/Hinnatunu, is the Biblical city/city state of Hannathon, (meaning: the Gift of Grace ); in the Amarna letters correspondence as Hinnatuna , it is a site in southern Canaan … Wikipedia
Corvée — French corvée. Corvée is labor, often unpaid, that is required of people of lower social standing and imposed on them by their superiors (often an aristocrat or noble). It differs from chattel slavery in that the worker is not owned outright –… … Wikipedia
Amarna letters — The Amarna letters (sometimes Amarna correspondence or Amarna tablets ) are an archive of correspondence on clay tablets, mostly diplomatic, between the Egyptian administration and its representatives in Canaan and Amurru during the New Kingdom.… … Wikipedia
Milkilu — Milkilu, and more properly Milk ilu, or Milku ilu, with an alternate version of Ili Milku (letter 286, by Abdi Heba of Jerusalem), was the mayor/ruler of Gazru (Gezer) of the 1350 1335 BC Amarna letters correspondence. Adda danu, and Yapahu were… … Wikipedia
Pirissi and Tulubri — are a pair of messengers of the 1350 1335 BC Amarna letters correspondence. Pirissi and Tulubri are the messengers of King Tushratta of Mitanni, and are referenced in Amarna letters EA 27, 28, and EA 29, (EA for el Amarna ).The letters of Pirissi … Wikipedia
Abi-Milku — was the only mayor/ruler of Tyre, Lebanon (called Surru in the letters), during the 1350 1335 BC Amarna letters correspondence.He is the author of ten letters, (to the pharaoh), EA 146 155, (EA for el Amarna ).He is not referenced by name, in any … Wikipedia
Karaduniyaš — Karaduniyaš, also Karaduniše, is the name used for Babylonia (Babylon), in the 1350 1335 BC Amarna letters correspondence. The name Karaduniyaš is mainly used in the letters written between Kadashman Enlil I, or Burna Buriash, the Kings of… … Wikipedia