Pu-Ba'lu

Pu-Ba'lu, (another spelling, also Pu-Bahla) was ruler/mayor of Yursa, (a city/city-state in Canaan(?)), of the 1350-1335 BC Amarna letters correspondence. His name translates in Akkadian as: "word/mouth (of) Baal", the " 'Spokesman (of) Baal' ", (–or 'Baal's Voice').

Pu-Ba'lu of Yursa is the author of three letters to pharaoh. See: Yursa

The three Amarna letters, (EA for 'el Amarna') to pharaoh from Pu-Ba'lu of Yursa are::EA 314—Title: "A shipment of glass":EA 315—Title: "Like a command of the Sun"–See: Reanap:EA 316—Title: "Postscript to the royal scribe"–See: Tahmašši

Of the entire Amarna letters 382–letter corpus, Pu-Ba'lu of Yursa is only referenced in letters 314, and 315, as: "..Pu-Ba'lu, the ruler of Yursa", and EA 316, as "Pu-Ba'lu". One other reference in EA 104, entitled: "Ullassa taken" is to Abdi-Ashirta's son, "Pu-Bahla", presumably a separate 'Pu-Baal'.

Example letter of "Pu-Ba'lu"

EA 314, "A shipment of glass"

:"To the king-(i.e. Pharaoh), my lord, my god, my Sun, the Sun from the sky: Message of "Pu-Ba'lu", your servant, the ruler of Yursa. I indeed prostrate myself at the feet of the king, my lord, my god, my Sun: the Sun from the sky, 7 times and 7 times, on the back and on the stomach. I am indeed guarding the place of the king, (my) lord, my Sun, the Sun from the sky. Who is the [Dog (Amarna letter appellaton)|do [] "g that would not o] be [y the orders of the king, the Sun from the sk] y? [Since the king, my lord, has ord [ere [d"] some glass, I [s] end it to the king, my lord, my god, the Sun from the sk [y] ." -EA -314, lines 1-22 (with damaged cuneiform characters)

EA 235, entitled: "An order of glass", is of the same subject, a letter from Satatna of Akka. See also the same subject glass: Yidya of Ašqaluna, EA 323; see: Yidya.

ee also

*Yursa
*Amarna letters–localities and their rulers
*Amarna letters
*Satatna, and Yidya, Glass letters

External links

* [http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:D3Wxs55A24MJ:www.hostkingdom.net/Caananites.html+Amarna+%22Pu-Baal%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us Pu-Baal of "Yurtsa"]
* [http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:xoIKQTL2nekJ:www.newchronology.org/fullt/78.txt+Amarna+%22Pu-Baal%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us Pu-Baal of "Yurtsa"] , a 2nd Article

References

*Moran, William L. "The Amarna Letters." John Hopkins University Press, 1987, 1992. (softcover, ISBN 0-8018-6715-0)