Tubu (town)

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Tubu is the town, east of the Sea of Galilee, referred to in the body, (corpus), of letters, the Amarna Letters.

Tubu is the probable biblical town of Tob. In the entire group of El Amarna letters, EA 205 is the only usage of the name Tubu, and only the "Man" ( or Mayor /prince,etc. ) is referenced.

The scribe that wrote EA 205, visited, and /or wrote from ( 6 ) towns, 5 south of, or neighboring, Damascus. Three were named, as only from the "Man" of the town. Three, were designated by the "Leader" of the town, and one of the ( 6 ) towns, was not mentioned by name. These Amarna letters are all written from the time centering about 1350 B.C.E., and written in Akkadian, etc., cuneiform, on clay tablet/letters.

Sources

• ----Index, Introduction, Maps, etc. in ...The Amarna Letters, Ed. and translated by William Moran, French, and English, c. 1987, 1992.