Abdi-Riša was a ruler-'mayor' of

Enišasi Enišasi, was a city, or city-state located in the Beqaa Valley-(called '' Amqu'', or ''Amka'') of Lebanon, during the 1350-1335 BC Amarna letters correspondence. Of the 382–Amarna letters, Enišasi is only referenced in two letters. Enišas ...

, during the period of the Amarna letters correspondence (1350–1335 BC). Another mayor of

Šatiya Šatiya, also ''Satiya'', or ''Shatiya'' was the ruler-'mayor' of Enišasi, during the Amarna letters period of 1350–1335 BC. In the entire correspondence of 382–letters, his name is only referenced in his own letter to the Ancient Egyptia ...

, is found in the Amarna letters

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. The name "Abdi-Riša" means ''"

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-Riša"''. Abdi-Riša is only referenced in his own letter EA 363, a letter to

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, ( EA for 'el

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'). Letter no. 363 is a unique letter, being part of a letter–series, (by the same

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): :EA 174-(1), ''"Report on

Amqu The Amqu (also Amka, Amki, Amq) is a region (now in eastern Lebanon), equivalent to the Beqaa Valley region, named in the 1350–1335 BC Amarna letters corpus. In the Amarna letters, two other associated regions appear to be east(?) and north(?), ...

(1)"'' :EA 175-(2), ''"Report on Amqu (2)"'' :EA 176-(3), ''"Report on Amqu (3)"'' :EA 363-(4), ''"Report on Amqu (4)"'' the Amqu being the ''"

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area"'' of

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. As letter EA 363 was discovered later, (in a separate in-situ deposit), than the original letters of the Amarna letters correspondence, it is undamaged.

Abdi-Riša letter

EA 363, title: "A joint report on

(4)" :Say to the king-(i.e. Pharaoh), my lord, my god, my Sun: Message of ''Abdi-Riša'', your servant, the ruler of E(ni)šasi. I fall in the dirt under the feet of the king, my lord, 7 times and 7 times. Look, we ar(e) in

, in cities of the king, my lord, and

Etakkama Etakkama, as a common name, but also, Aitukama, Atak(k)ama, Etak(k)ama, and Itak(k)ama is the name for the 'mayor' (king) of Qidšu, ( Kadesh) of the 1350–1335 BC Amarna letters correspondence. (Qidšu is also referenced as: Qinšu, also Kissa) ...

, the ruler of Qinsa-(Kadesh), assisted the troops of

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and set the cities of the king, my lord, on fire. May the king, my lord, take cognizance, and may the king, my lord, give

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that we may (re)gain the cities of the king, my lord, and dwell in the cities of the king, my lord, my god, my Sun. -EA 363, lines 1-23 (complete) The actual written name used for Enišasi in this letter is: ''Ešasi''.

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, ) 14th-century BC Phoenician people 14th-century BC rulers Amarna letters writers Phoenicians in the Amarna letters {{Phoenicia-stub

Abdi-Riša letter

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