Pakhura (Pihu) was an Egyptian commissioner in the "Land of Retenu" (Canaan) mentioned in the Amarna letters. He probably served under Pharaoh Amenhotep III and/or Akhenaten. In EA 122, Rib-Hadda, king of Byblos, complained of an attack by Pakhura, who killed a number of Byblos' Shardana mercenaries and took captive three of Rib-Hadda's men.
References
edit- I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd, N. G. L. Hammond, E. Sollberger, eds., The Cambridge Ancient History, Cambridge University Press 1973
- Epiphanius Wilson, Egyptian Literature, The Colonial Press 1901, p.212
- Charles Francis Horne, The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, Kessinger Publishing 2001, p.288