ANTH 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Ibri, Aleppo, Idrimi
14 Aug 2020
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To the king, my lord, my god, my sun: message of shuwardata [of gath], your servant. I fall at the feet of my king, my lord, 7 times and 7 times, both on the stomach and the back. May the king, my lord, be informed that i am alone. May the king, my lord, send a very large archer-force that it may save me. Displaced from aleppo where his family ruled. I moved on and went to the land of canaan. I stayed in ammia in the land of canaan; in. Ammia lived (also) nativse of halab [aleppo], of the country mukishkhi, of the country. Ni and also warriors from the country ama"e. They discovered that i was the son of their overlord and gathered around me. There i grew up and stayed for a long time. For seven years i lived among the hapiru-people. Attested throughout lba; a pan-near eastern phenomenon.
