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
Acre ( ), known locally as Akko ( he, עַכּוֹ, ''ʻAkō'') or Akka ( ar, عكّا, ''ʻAkkā''), is a city in the coastal plain region of the Northern District of Israel.
The city occupies an important location, sitting in a natural harb ...
, during the 1350–1335 BC
Amarna letters correspondence.
Satatna was the author of three letters to the
Egyptian pharaoh
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, letters EA 233–235, (EA for 'el
Amarna
Amarna (; ar, العمارنة, al-ʿamārnah) is an extensive Egyptian archaeological site containing the remains of what was the capital city of the late Eighteenth Dynasty. The city was established in 1346 BC, built at the direction of the Ph ...
'). He is referenced in another minor
vassal
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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
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"''. See: commissioner:
Šuta.
:#EA 235—title: ''"An order for glass"''
Satatna's Amarna letters
EA 233, "Work in progress"
:Say to the king,
ord the Sun from
he sky
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Language
* He (pronoun), an English pronoun
* He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ
* He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets
* He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' in ...
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
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*Prostration, a position of submission in religion etc.
*Prone position, a face-down orientation of the body
*Prostrate shrub
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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
d'. —EA 233, lines 1-20 (complete)
EA 234, "Like Magdalu in
Egypt
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"
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-?).
have obeyed the
rers of the king's
comm ssioner to me, to guard the citie
fr the king, my lord. I have guarded very carefully. M
reover the king, my lord has wri
ten
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* 10, an even natural number following 9 and preceding 11
* one of the years 10 BC, AD 10, 1910 and 2010
* October, the tenth month of the year
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* Mount Ten, in Vietnam
* Tongren Fenghuang Airport (IATA code ...
to me for ''glass'',
ndI 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".
See also
*
Pu-Ba'lu, glass letter
*
Yidya, glass letter
*
Amarna letters
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
Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consiste ...
Press, 1987, 1992. (softcover, )
Amarna letters writers
14th-century BC Phoenician people
14th-century BC rulers
Phoenicians in the Amarna letters
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