The Amarna Age Inscribed Clay Cylinder from Beth-Shean
What appeared at first to be an ordinary cylinder seal turned out to be a unique letter inscribed on a clay cylinder. Deciphering the short missive produced another surprise: The sender and recipient of the letter, Tagi and Lab˒aya, were two well known figures from fourteenth-century Canaan. About w...
| Published in: | The Biblical archaeologist |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Scholars Press
1997
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| In: |
The Biblical archaeologist
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| Summary: | What appeared at first to be an ordinary cylinder seal turned out to be a unique letter inscribed on a clay cylinder. Deciphering the short missive produced another surprise: The sender and recipient of the letter, Tagi and Lab˒aya, were two well known figures from fourteenth-century Canaan. About what were these two rebels communicating and why did their singularly small (secretive?) letter end up at the site of Egypt's main garrison? |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Biblical archaeologist
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3210598 |