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Updated: May 25, 2025
If I receive no troops I shall forsake my city, and flee, doing that which seems good to me to preserve my life.” Yanhamu’s bias against Rib-Addi is made evident in many other letters which the poor wretch addressed to the Court: “If I should make a treaty with Abd-Ashera as did Yap-Addi and Zimrida, then I should be safe.
But Tunip, thy city, weeps; her tears flow; nowhere is there help for us.” The most bitter complaints against Aziru and his father Abd-Ashera come from Rib-Addi of Gebal. His utterances rival the Lamentations of Jeremiah both in volume and in monotonous pathos.
This desire was not complied with, for the Phœnician vassal was at length robbed of all his cities and possessions, so that even the callous Egyptian Government felt obliged at last to send a threatening embassy to Aziru, the son of Abd-Ashera, and the real author of the difficulties in Gebal.
One of these many letters, the contents of which are often stereotyped enough, is also noticeable for its revelation of the connection of Rib-Addi, who must already have been an elderly man, with Amanappa: “To Amanappa, my father; Rib-Addi, thy son! At my father’s feet I fall. Again and again I asked thee, ‘Canst thou not rescue me from the hand of Abd-Ashera? What then can save me?
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