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Amarna letters correspondence. (Qidšu is also referenced as: Qinšu, also Kissa). Etakkama is referenced in 11 of the 382 EA letters, ( EA for 'el

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'), and especially, a ''series of 4'' identical letters concerning:

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. Those 4 letters concern the intrigues of city/

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takeovers, along with troops from Hatti, and the claim of: ''Etakkama's troops from 'Kinsa' ''-(Qidšu-''Kissa'')- Kadesh) and are titled: ''"A joint report on

(1-4)"''. Etakkama was the author of one letter, EA 189.

Letter no. 189, title: ''"Etakkama of Qadesh"''

:To the king, my lord: Message of ''Etakkama'', your servant. I fall at the feet of my lord, my Sun, 7 times plus 7. My lord, I am your servant, but the wicked Biryawaza has gone on defaming me in your sight, my lord, and when he was defaming me in your sight, ''then'' he took my entire paternal estate along with the land of Qidšu, and sent my cities up in flames. But, I assure you, the commissioners of the king, my lord, and his magnates know my loyalty, since I said to the magnate Puhuru, "May the magnate Puhuru know that .. ... ''Reverse'' : ..:...Biryawaza. Thus do I serve you along w t all my brothers, and wherever there is war against the king, I go, together with my troops, together with my

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s, and together with all my brothers. Since Biryawaza had allowed all of the cities of the king, my lord, to go over to the 'Apiru in Tahši and Upu, I went, and with your gods and your

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leading me, I restored from the 'Apiru the cities to the king, my lord, for his service, and I disbanded the 'Apiru. May the king, my lord, rejoice at Etakkama, his servant, for I serve the king, my lord, together with all my brothers. I serve the king, my lord, but Biryawaza caused the loss of all ourlan s. ''His intention''is solely injustice, but I am our servantforever. —EA 189, lines 1-20, Rev: lines 1-27 (bottom of tablet-letter damaged,

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of 2-5 sentences(?)) Besides claiming his loyalty to Pharaoh, Etakkama is revealing how Biryawaza, the King of Dimašqu, ( Damascus) is really the problem in Upu, the region surrounding Damascus. The 'Amqu region' is the Beqaa Valley area to the northeast (of Damascus), in Lebanon.

References

Moran, William L. William Lambert Moran (August 11, 1921 – December 19, 2000) was an American Assyriologist. He was born in Chicago, United States. In 1939, Moran joined the Jesuit order. He then attended Loyola University in Chicago, where he received his ...

''The Amarna Letters.'' Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, 1992. (softcover, {{ISBN, 0-8018-6715-0) Amarna letters writers Canaanite people 14th-century BC rulers 14th-century BC people

Letter no. 189, title: ''"Etakkama of Qadesh"''

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