Yarimuta as the Yarkon River Valley
Since the first edition of the Amarna Letters, the location of the “land of Yarimuta” mentioned by the ruler of Byblos Rib-Addi has been a thorny and debated issue. In the last century this fabled territory, from which Rib-Addi expects to receive food and soldiers, has been identified with several l...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Akademie
2020
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Ägypten und Levante
Year: 2020, Volume: 30, Pages: 301-311 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Proximity Principle B Aphek B Amarna B Yanhamu B Yarimuta |
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| Summary: | Since the first edition of the Amarna Letters, the location of the “land of Yarimuta” mentioned by the ruler of Byblos Rib-Addi has been a thorny and debated issue. In the last century this fabled territory, from which Rib-Addi expects to receive food and soldiers, has been identified with several locations across both Egypt and the Levant. This study reassesses all pieces of information revealed by Rib-Addi on both Yarimuta and its commissioner Yanhamu. It then re-analyses them, with a focus on the working history of Yanhamu in the Amarna letters, and how it places Yarimuta in the proximity of the Egyptian centre of Gaza. After having countered the locations that have been proposed until now, the article advances a different and more fitting identification: the Yarkon River Valley. |
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| ISSN: | 1813-5145 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ägypten und Levante
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1553/AEundL30s301 |