Amarna letter from Labayu (ruler of Shechem) to Amenhotep III, denying accusation of treachery &failure to comply with the pharaoh’s orders. He justifies his capture of a town with a proverb “When an ant is struck, does it not fight back and bite the hand of the man that struck it?”[2159×2048]
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Akkadian cuneiform text. 14th century BCE. From Tell el-Amarna, Egypt. British Museum, London