Labana
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| Akkadian | Labana |
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The cuneiform toponym Labana is identified with ? at the site of ?.
The toponym is represented in Egyptian hieroglyphic sources as:
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Location
Syrian plain, mid-Orontes region
Status
City-state and territory
Leadership
- Tiwate / Teuwatti (Amarna period, late 14th century BCE)
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Discussion
Several scholars have identified Labana with the site of Lebwe (Lebo-Hamath) in the Beqaʿ Valley [Weber in Knudtzon 1915:111, Aharoni 1967:66, 137, 147; Moran 1992:390, Liverani 1998a:287].
A serious obstacle to this equation, however, lies in the appearance of both Labana and Labʾu / Lebwe simultaneously within the Karnal topographical list of Thutmose III (numbers 10 and 82 respectively).
The apparently clear textual distinction from Lebwe is confirmed by the petrographic analysis of EA 193: on the basis of a "pronounced basaltic component" within the tablet, combined with the appearance of younger basalt inclusions typical of the area north of the Qidšu lake, the tentative suggestion has been made to locate Labana east of the Orontes River in the area of Quseir or the region south / south-east of that location. The actual site is as yet to be identified from a number of candidates within the region.
Observations
Tiwate / Teuwatti, the ruler of Labana in the Amarna period, was an ally of Arzawiya of Ruḫizzi. Together they teamed with the ruler of Qidšu in attacking the land of Upi [EA 53:36, 56; EA 54:26, 31; EA 191:2; EA 192:4, EA 197:26, 33].
Bibliography
Prosopography
Identification
- Petrography: Inscribed in Clay, pp.98-99
