Satatna

Satatna, or Sitatna, and also Šutatna/"Shutatna"-(of a Babylonian letter of Burna-Buriash), was a 'Mayor'/Ruler of Akka, or "Acco", modern Acre, Israel, during the 1350-1335 BC Amarna letters correspondence.

Satatna was the author of 3 letters to the Egyptian pharaoh, letters EA 233-235, (EA for 'el Amarna'). He is referenced in another minor vassal letter of Ruler: "Bayadi of Syria", and he is also referred to in EA 8, by Burna-Buriash as "..Šutatna, the son of Šaratum-(Surata) of Akka..."

A list of Satatna authored letters is as follows::#EA 233—title: "Work in progress":#EA 234—title: "Like Magdalu in Egypt". See: commissioner: Šuta.:#EA 235—title: "An order for glass"

atatna's 3 Amarna letters

EA 233, "Work in progress"

:"Say to the king, [m] y [lord] , the Sun from [the sky] : Message of "Satatna" the ruler of Akka, your servant, the servant of the king and the dirt at his feet and the ground on which he treads, I prostrate myself at the feet of the king, my lord, my god, the Sun from the sky, 7 times and 7 times, both on the stomach and on the back. He is obeying what the king, my lord, has written to his servant, and preparing everything that my lord "has order [ed] "." -EA 233, lines 1-20 (complete)

EA 234, "Like Magdalu in Egypt"

See: Egyptian commissioner: Šuta.

EA 235, "An order for glass"

:"Say to the king, my lord, my Sun, my god, the Sun from the sky: Message of "Sitatna", your servant, the dirt at your feet. (I pr)ostrate myself at the feet of the king, my lord, my Sun, my god, 7 times and 7 times. ((at the feet of the king, my lord))-(emphasis-?). [I] have obeyed the [or] ders of the king's [commissioner|comm [issioner] ] to me, to guard the citie [s f] or the king, my lord. I have guarded very carefully. M [oreover] , the king, my lord has wri [tten] to me for "glass", [and] I herewith send 50 (units), ["their"] weight-(i.e. I herewith send: "50–weight"), to the king, my lord." -EA 235 (join of EA 327), lines 1-21 (complete)-(Note: reduces 382 Amarna letters to 381 (!))

See: Pu-Ba'lu for another letter concerning "glass"-(EA 314, "A shipment of glass"). Also see: Yidya, letter EA 323, "A royal order for glass".

ee also

*Surata
*Pu-Ba'lu, glass letter
*Yidya, glass letter
*Amarna letters

References

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