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    Abdi-Ḫeba (Abdi-Kheba, Abdi-Ḫepat, or Abdi-Ḫebat) was a local chieftain of Jerusalem during the Amarna period (mid-1330s BC). Egyptian documents have him...
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  • Canaanite ruler of Amurru Abdi-Heba (14th century BC.), Canaanite chieftain of Jerusalem Abdi-Milkutti (7th century BC), Sidonian king Abdi-Riša (14th century...
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    Title: "Robbed of Everything." (author unknown) Abdi-Heba–EA 287 and EA 289, letters by Abdi-Heba to pharaoh.(see EA 287 here: Photo, EA 287: Reverse)...
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  • Akka/Acre, Israel letter. EA 288—Title: "Benign neglect"–Abdi-Heba letter. See: Tjaru. Abdi-Heba's letters, to the Egyptian pharaoh, are of moderate length...
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  • additional letter of the Amarna letters, EA 335, (EA for 'el Amarna'). Abdi-Heba's letters, to the Egyptian pharaoh, are of moderate length, and topically...
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    involved in the letters include Tushratta of Mitanni, Lib'ayu of Shechem, Abdi-Heba of Jerusalem, and the quarrelsome king, Rib-Hadda, of Byblos, who, in...
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  • Thumbnail for Amarna letter EA 286
    finely-inscribed clay tablet letter, approximately 8 in tall, and 3.5 in wide, from Abdi-Heba the mayor/ruler of Jerusalem, of the mid-14th-century BC Amarna letters...
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    hand, have come into the hand of the Habiri." The king of Jerusalem, Abdi-Heba, reported to the Pharaoh: If (Egyptian) troops come this year, lands and...
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  • Dictionary, identifies Adonizedek with a king of Jerusalem called `Abdi-Heba ("servant of Heba"), who around 1350 BC wrote several letters to the Pharaoh of...
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    letters, several of which were written by the chieftain of Jerusalem Abdi-Heba and call Jerusalem either Urusalim (URU ú-ru-sa-lim) or Urušalim (URU...
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  • See Labaya, or Abdi-Heba, as EA 280 claims: "Moreover, Lab'ayu who used to take our town, is dead, but now [an]other Lab'ayu is 'Abdi-Heba, and he seizes...
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    Amarna correspondence (c. 1400 BCE). In one of his six letters to Pharaoh, Abdi-Heba, the Egyptian-appointed governor of Jerusalem, appeals for aid in retaking...
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  • the entire body of Amarna letters. Addaya is also in three letters by Abdi-Heba of Jerusalem, (called Uru-salim in the Amarna letters – EA 289, URU-Ú-ru-sa-lim...
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    (Achshaph). In this time period, the Habiru are attacking city-states, and Abdi-Heba of Jerusalem, Surata of Acco, Šuwardata of Qiltu (?), and Endaruta are...
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  • letter no. 5 of 6 to the Pharaoh, by Abdi-Heba of Jerusalem. See: Egyptian official: Pawura. Letter no. 6 of 6 by Abdi-Heba of Urusalim: "[Sa]y [t]o the king-(i...
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    Akhenaten and the first regnal year of Tutankhamun (14th century BCE), Abdi-Heba speaks of the destruction of the "city of Ajalon" by the invaders, and...
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    chieftains, such as Biridiya of Megiddo, Lib'ayu of Shechem and Abdi-Heba in Jerusalem. Abdi-Heba is a Hurrian name, and enough Hurrians lived in Canaan at...
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    "land", "country"; also possibly "region". In EA 288, a letter from the Abdi-Heba, the Governor of Jerusalem, the kur sign is used eight times. The alphabetic/syllabic...
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    Canaanite rulers, such as Abdi-Heba of Jerusalem, complained of Labaya's depredations (e.g. EA 289) but note that in later years, Abdi-Heba would himself be referred...
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    finely-inscribed clay tablet letter, approximately 6.5 in tall, from Abdi-Heba the mayor/ruler of Jerusalem, of the mid 14th century BC Amarna letters...
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  • Amarna letters 3.92A Letter of Abdi-heba of Jerusalem (EA 286) 487–488 [The Amarna Letters] EA, No. 286 3.92B Letter of Abdi-heba of Jerusalem (EA 289) 489...
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    Urušalimum, may indicate Jerusalem. Alternatively, the Amarna letters of Abdi-Heba (1330s BCE), which reference an Úrušalim, may be the earliest mention...
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    Canaan, particularly in a struggle for power between Labaya of Shechem and Abdi-Heba of Jerusalem, which required the pharaoh to intervene in the area by dispatching...
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    century BCE, several of which were written by the chieftain of Jerusalem Abdi-Heba and call Jerusalem either Urusalim (URU ú-ru-sa-lim) or Urušalim (URU...
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    ú-ru-sa-lim) or Urušalim (URU ú-ru-ša10-lim) in the Amarna letters of Abdi-Heba (1330s BCE). The Sumero-Akkadian name for Jerusalem, uru-salim, is variously...
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    approximately 7.5 in tall x 4.5 in wide, broken into two pieces, from Abdi-Heba the mayor/ruler of Jerusalem, of the mid 14th century BC Amarna letters...
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    "Three Against One", is one of the two shorter letters, of six, from Abdi-Heba the governing man of Jerusalem. In the Jerusalem letters, Jerusalem is...
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    oil, grain and cattle. In another letter sent to the king (no. 287) Abdi-Heba, the ruler of Jerusalem, accuses Yidya, as well as the rulers of Lachish...
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    19 onward. Posterity has not preserved any Egyptian response, however, Abdi-Heba, the Canaanite Mayor of Jerusalem, then a small hillside town, wrote in...
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  • Thumbnail for Amarna letter EA 287
    tall, finely-inscribed clay tablet letter, approximately 8 in tall, from Abdi-Heba the mayor/ruler of Jerusalem, of the mid 14th century BC Amarna letters...
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