Dramatis personae
Who wrote, who received, who was talked about. Counts are computed from the derived tables; the one-line roles follow Moran (1992).
Who wrote, who received, who was talked about. Counts are computed from the derived tables; the one-line roles follow Moran (1992).
| who | polity | letters sent | letters recv’d | mention degree | role |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pharaoh | Egypt | 8 | 266 | 47 | The court itself — Amenhotep III and Akhenaten, collapsed to one node; addressee of nearly every letter. |
| Rib-Hadda | Byblos | 63 | 1 | 34 | Mayor of Byblos and the archive's most prolific voice: 63 letters, most of them demanding archers that never came. Eventually exiled by his own brother. |
| Aziru | Amurru | 13 | 2 | 44 | ʿAbdi-Aširta's son. Played Egypt and Hatti against each other, captured Ṣumur, and finally defected to the Hittites. |
| Yanhamu | — | 0 | 3 | 39 | Egyptian commissioner, probably the most powerful official in Canaan; vassals beg him for grain and fear his displeasure. |
| ʿAbdi-Aširta | Amurru | 3 | 0 | 37 | Founder of Amurru's fortunes, accused from every side of feeding towns to the ʿApiru; dead by EA 101. |
| Tušratta | Mittani | 11 | 0 | 18 | King of Mittani, 'brother' of pharaoh; sender of the longest letters in the archive, including one in Hurrian. |
| Biryawaza | Damascus | 4 | 0 | 24 | Egypt's man in Damascus, holding the line in the Beqaa against Qadesh. |
| Zimreddi | Sidon | 2 | 0 | 25 | Mayor of Sidon; accused by Tyre of joining Aziru's side. |
| Etakkama | Qadesh | 1 | 1 | 22 | Ruler of Qadesh; went over to the Hittites and attacked his neighbors with Hittite troops. |
| ʿAbdi-Heba | Jerusalem | 6 | 0 | 16 | Ruler of Jerusalem, warning pharaoh that 'the lands of the king are lost' to the ʿApiru and his neighbors. |
| Labʾayu | Šakmu | 3 | 0 | 18 | The 'lion' of Shechem, scourge of the Jezreel valley; killed by the men of Gina while being extradited. |
| Milki-ilu | Gazru | 5 | 1 | 14 | Mayor of Gezer; ʿAbdi-Ḫeba's chief enemy in the south. |
| Abi-Milku | Tyre | 10 | 0 | 9 | Mayor of Tyre, cut off from water and mainland by Sidon; wrote elegant hymns to pharaoh while besieged. |
| Akizzi | Qatna | 5 | 0 | 11 | Ruler of Qatna, pleading loyalty as the Hittite storm broke over Syria. |
| Šuwardata | Gimtu | 8 | 0 | 7 | Mayor of Gath; feuded with ʿAbdi-Ḫeba, then allied with him against the ʿApiru (EA 366). |
| Pahanate | — | 0 | 1 | 10 | Egyptian commissioner at Ṣumur — the addressee the catalogue mistook for pharaoh (EA 62). |
| Biridiya | Megiddo | 7 | 0 | 4 | Mayor of Megiddo, Labʾayu's chief victim. |
| Ammunira | Beirut | 3 | 0 | 4 | Mayor of Beirut, Rib-Hadda's last refuge in exile. |
| Burna-buriaš II | Babylon | 6 | 0 | 0 | Kassite king of Babylon, connoisseur of gold and diplomatic slights. |
| Amanappa | — | 0 | 6 | 0 | Egyptian official, Rib-Hadda's patron at court ('father and lord'). |
| who | polity | letters sent | mention degree |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haya | — | 0 | 21 |
| puhuru | — | 0 | 19 |
| yapabalu | — | 0 | 19 |
| maya | — | 0 | 18 |
| piwuru | — | 0 | 18 |
| burnaburias | — | 0 | 17 |
| hanya | — | 0 | 17 |
| arzayu | — | 0 | 15 |
| keliya | — | 0 | 15 |
| Surata | Akka | 1 | 14 |
| betili | — | 0 | 14 |
| Tagi | Gintikirmil | 3 | 11 |
Plus some two hundred more: messengers, daughters sent to distant courts, commissioners, and men remembered only because someone accused them of something. The full actor table is data/derived/nodes.csv in the repository.