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The oldest recorded political asylum...to the land of Canaan, and the oldest archaeological discovery that literally mentions Canaan is the Idrimi statue before
"3500" years ago, dating back to the Syrian king Idrimi, 1440-1460 BC, "Idrimi". This statue was found in northern Syria in the 1930s by the British archaeologist Leonard Woolley in the ruins of a temple at the site of Al-Alakh, known today as Tell Al-Atshaneh in the occupied Iskenderun district, and this statue was transferred to the British Museum in 1939 AD, where restoration work took place because it had been severely damaged, as the statue’s head and feet were broken and it was deliberately dropped from the base of the statue.
King Idrimi appears in this statue sitting on his throne, wearing a crown, placing his right hand parallel to his left hand. On the front of the statue appears a cuneiform inscription in the Akkadian language that has now become widely known as one of the most important cuneiform documents in history. It tells an exciting story about this king, so it is considered one of the oldest. Found political biographies.
As stated in the inscription on the statue
And he says:
“I am Idrimi, son of Ilim-Ilimma, I am the servant of the god Teshub, the goddess Hebat, and the goddess Shashaka (identical to Ishtar), the mistress of Alakh, my mistress.
In Aleppo, "Yamhad", in my fathers' house, a crime occurred and we fled from there.
The masters of Imar (a residence in Idlib) were descended from my mother’s sisters, so we settled in Imar.
My older siblings also lived with me.”
But after his family was forced to flee from Imar, he realized that he would not have real power there and was considered to live in Imar like a slave. As a result, he left his family and brothers, took his horse and chariot, and went to the desert and joined the Habiru (Habiru), who were present in the desert of the land of Canaan.
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