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Ages In Chaos

Chapter VI: The El-Amarna Letters

  • The Phoenicians leave for a new home

  • Who is the dreaded "king of Hatti" of the
    el-Amarna correspondence?

  • Idioms of the el-Amama letters

  • The age of ivory

  • Conclusions

  • A halfway mark

  • Iarimuta

  • Samaria (Sumur) under the oligarchs

  • The "King's City," Sumur

  • Shalmaneser III expels King Nikmed

  • Shalmaneser III is opposed by a Syrian coalition under Biridri (Biridia), the commandant of Megiddo

  • Shalmaneser III invades Amuru land and is opposed by the king of Damascus

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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