EA 333

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EA 333

Text	Istanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Tell el-Ḥesi, Fi. 11
Copy	BE 1/2, pl.LXIV, №147; VAB 2/1, p.15
Photograph	BE 1/2, pl.XXIV, №66-67
Transl/ation/iteration	Albright 1942
Translation	Ebeling, p.370; Albright, ANET, p.490; Naʾaman, in Stern, E. and Urman, D. (eds), Man and Environment in the Southern Shephelah: Studies in Regional Geography and History, Massada, 1988, sect. 94 (Hebrew)
Find Provenance	Tell el-Ḥesi

Contents 1 Transliteration 2 Translation 3 Discussion 4 Bibliography

Transliteration

Translation

[To] the magnate, speak -

[Thus (message of) P]aapu:

{A]t your feet I fal[l].

May you know that

Šipṭi-Baʿlu and Zimreda

are acting disloyally

together,

and Šipṭi-Baʿlu said

to Zimreda:

"The [for]ces of (the town of) Yaramu

[h]ave written to me.

[G]ive me

[x +] 11 bows, 3 daggers

and 3 swords. Look, I

am about to go forth against the land

of the king and you are allied

with me".

And yet he rejects

(any accusation of) disloyalty to the crown,

(saying): "The one who is disloyal to the king

is Paapu, so send him

[t]o me".

I [no]w send Rabi-Ilu.

He will [certain]ly answer him

[i]n this matter.

Discussion

Bibliography

• Albright, William F. [1942], “A Case of Lèse-Majesté in Pre-Israelite Lachish, with Some Remarks on the Israelite Conquest”, BASOR 87 (1942), pp.32-38.

• Goren, Yuval, Finkelstein, Israel and Naʾaman, Nadav [2004], Inscribed in Clay: Provenance Study of the Amarna Tablets and Other Ancient Near Eastern Texts, Tel Aviv: Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, University of Tel Aviv, 2004. ISBN 9652660205

• Moran, William L. [1992], The Amarna Letters, London and Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. ISBN 0801842514