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Abishemu of Byblos

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during the late Middle Bronze IIA (c. 1820-1628 BC). In relation to Syria, the ruler of byblos held the title "king" in the Mari Archive. However, Abishemu belongs to a sequence of rulers who held the Egyptian title Haty-aa of Kepny (ḥꜣty-ʻ n Kpny), indicating they served as "governors" for the great
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Abishemu (also known as Abichemou) may have been the son of Kukun, son of Ruqqa/Luqqa (the R and L are interchangeable), and father of Ibshemuabi. His reign may correspond to the second half of the Middle Bronze II, when Byblos may have recognized the Great King of Egypt as its overlord, using the
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Wehem ankh (wHm ʻnḫ) literally means "repeating life", an expression used in Ancient Egypt in various contexts, also as an epithet applied to the deceased from the Middle Kingdom onwards. Thus, the obelisk may be associated with the burial of Abishemu.
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Some have speculated that "Kwkwn śꜣ Rwqq" in the Abishemu Obelisk may refer to Kukunnis, son of Lukka, Lukka being an ethnic group later considered to be among the purported "
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title Haty-aa and adopting Egyptian style as opposed to the Syrian style dominated by
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Transcribed: mry Ḥr-š·f ḥꜣty-ʻ n Kpny ʼb-šmw wḥm ʻnḫ f Kwkwn śꜣ Rwqq mꜣʻ ḫrw
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Index


Abishemu obelisk
Issue
Byblos
12th Dynasty
13th Dynasty
Yamhad
Qatna
Abishemu obelisk
Temple of Obelisks
Herishef
Sea Peoples
transliterated
Kukunnis
Lycians
Kings of Byblos
Albright, William F.
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
doi
10.2307/1355673
JSTOR
1355673
S2CID
163957543
"The Lukka Problem – And a Possible Solution"
Journal of Near Eastern Studies
doi
10.1086/372378
JSTOR
544776

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