Tel Hanaton
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Tel Hanaton is an archaeological tell situated at the western edge of the Beit Netofa Valley, in the western Lower Galilee region of Israel, 2 kilometres south of the Town of Kfar Manda and 1 kilometr
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Tiglath-Pileser III—stela from the walls of his palace (British Museum, London)
The basement of the crusader period tower at Tel Hanaton
Labaya
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Labaya was a Canaanite prince and the ruler of Shechem in the central hill country of southern Canaan during the Amarna Period. He lived contemporaneously with the pharaoh Akhenaten. Labaya is mention
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…Hinnatuna of Canaan', and asks him to take measures. Amarna letter EA 245 is a letter to Pharaoh from Biridiya, a local ruler. It concerns a certain Labayu, who was probably the mayor of Shechem (Šakmu). This Labayu was then in trouble with the Pharaoh, but somehow escaped punishment after being held for…
Amarna letter. Letter from Labaya (ruler of Shechem) to the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III or his son Akhenaten. 14th century BCE. From Tell el-Amarna, Egypt. British Museum. ME 29844. EA 252