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'''Pakhura''' ('''Pihu''') was an [[Ancient Egypt|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==
* 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

[[Category:Amarna letters officials]]