the king my lord know that they have taken the cities of the king my lord; but the city in which I reside, I protect, until I see the eyes ofThe regent of the king my lord. From the day which I sent these tablets to the palace,They have been against me [..] (Moran 1992: 4)It appears that in this letter they have taken the city and he almost seems to at least he thinks he let the king down. He said he was to protect it while he was gone. The last letter is also from Amarna and it is Biridiya to Pharaoh. The number is EA 244. This one seems more desperate then the other one.When he knew there would not be given troops, he has demonstrated his intentionsTo take Megiddo. May the king rescue his city, so that Lab’aya will not take it!Truly the city is exhausted, to die from pestilence, from the plague. Let the kingGive a hundred garrison men to protect the city. Truly, Lab’aya has no other intention: To take Megiddo is that which he seeks! (Moran 1992: 4)This guy seems to be a little bit unhappy with what had happened. The king just does not care about anything that went on in his world. He was to busy making his religion bigger and more known to care about what went on.As you can see by some of the many letters I used. This very odd individual unlike most kings cared some what about there people this one seemed to not really want to be bothered by it. Another weird thing is aside from building the city of amarna in the middle of nowhere. In the city of Karnak there was a temple built to Aten (Alfred 1988: 215). The temple to Aten to him was too small. He decided to build a much bigger one to the Aten (Alfred 1988: 215). He changed the temples appearance the Aten form was a falcon bearing a sun- disk on his head (Alfred 1988: 215).He changed it to an abstract symbol, the sun disk with many rays ending up in a form of hands. Coming down on the king and his family (Alfred 1988: 215). When Akhenaten died the c...
