Prostration formula
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In the 1350 BC correspondence of 382 letters, called the Amarna letters, the prostration formula is usually the opening subservient remarks to the addressee, the Egyptian pharaoh. The formula is based
Amarna letter EA 364, "Justified War", City-state-ruler Ayyab of Ashartu to Pharaoh. Line 5, "7 times (and) and 7 times...", (7-šu 7-ta-an, (5 cuneiform characters)), "I bow down" (line 6: 2 signs: am-qut).
Pítati
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The Pitati were a contingent of Nubian archers of ancient Egypt that were often requested and dispatched to support Egyptian vassals in Canaan. They are recorded in the correspondence of the 1350 BC A
Prostration formula
…mouth of their lord. I am indeed, together with my troops and chariots, together with my brothers, my 'Apiru and my Suteans, at the disposition of the archers, wheresoever the king, my lord, shall order--(order me to go). —EA 195, lines 1-32 (complete) See also Amarna letters Amarna letters–phrases and…
Rahotep, a superintendent of the military, and military supplies, including archers–(Note Archer hieroglyph, and quiver hieroglyph). (Superintendent-(overseer): is ‘Emir’, represented by the Owl above mouth hieroglyphs, for "m-r", 'emeer'.)
A group of Egyptian soldiers and Nubian mercenaries holding axes, bows, and quivers of arrows. From the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, c. 1470 BCE. Neues Museum, Berlin