Pu-Ba'lu

Pu-Ba'lu, (another spelling, also Pu-Bahla) was ruler/mayor of

Pu-Ba'lu of Yursa is the author of three letters to pharaoh. See: Yursa

The three Amarna letters, (

EA 314—Title: "A shipment of glass"

EA 315—Title: "Like a command of the Sun"–See: Reanap

EA 316—Title: "Postscript to the royal scribe"–See: Tahmašši

Of the entire Amarna letters 382–letter corpus, Pu-Ba'lu of Yursa is only referenced in letters 314, and 315, as: "..Pu-Ba'lu, the ruler of Yursa", and EA 316, as "Pu-Ba'lu". One other reference in EA 104, entitled: "Ullassa taken" is to Abdi-Ashirta's son, "Pu-Bahla", presumably a separate 'Pu-Baal'.

Example letter of Pu-Ba'lu

EA 314, "A shipment of glass"

To the king-(i.e. Pharaoh), my lord, my god, my Sun, the Sun from the sky: Message of Pu-Ba'lu, your servant, the ruler of

cuneiform

characters)

EA 235, entitled: "An order of glass", is of the same subject, a letter from Satatna of Akka. See also the same subject glass: Yidya of Ašqaluna, EA 323; see: Yidya.

See also

• Yursa
• Amarna letters–localities and their rulers
• Amarna letters
• Amarna letter EA 323
• Satatna, and Yidya, Glass letters

External links

• Pu-Baal of "Yurtsa"
• Pu-Baal of "Yurtsa", a 2nd Article

References

• ISBN 0-8018-6715-0
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