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Abi-milku
Abi-milku was a fourteenth-century BCE ruler of Tyre, known from letters to Egypt’s king
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Abi-milku was a fourteenth-century BCE ruler of TyreTyreTyre is a city on the coast of present-day southern Lebanon and an important ancient Phoenician centerGlossary · Click to read the explanation, known from letters to Egypt’s king. [1]
The Metropolitan Museum holds his AmarnaAmarna / AkhetatenSite of Akhenaten’s capital in Middle Egypt; boundary stelae record successive proclamations and reaffirmation.Glossary · Click to read the explanation letter dated about 1347–1330 BCE, written in AkkadianAkkadianAn ancient East Semitic language written in cuneiform in Mesopotamia.Glossary · Click to read the explanation. Such letters illuminate political and scribal contact between Egypt and the LevantThe LevantThe Levant is a regional name for lands along the eastern MediterraneanGlossary · Click to read the explanation.
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- Metropolitan Museum, Abi-milku’s letter to Egypt’s king, 24.2.12, about 1347–1330 BCE. Description and source metadata Return to the text ↑
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IL Archive, «Abi-milku», Edition 2, https://ilarchive.com/en/people/abi-milku