Joppa

A Street in Joppa,
in Brooklyn Museum

Joppa, or Jaffa, was a site on the coast of southern Israel based at contemporary Tel Aviv-Yafo. Djehuti, a trusted Egyptian officer of Tuthmosis III (1479-1425  B.C.E.), accepted the ancient city of  Joppa. This  officer  used  a  ruse that  has  got  a  plot element in literature.  The  event was  noted  in  Egypt  and  shown  in  the  Harris Papyrus 500, now in the British Museum in London. This military deception was too transformed into an Arabic tale of advanced centuries.

According to this literary custom, Djehuti met with an  official  of  Joppa  outside  the  city  gates  and  held that he and his family hoped to defect to Joppa and the Hurrian troops that helped as the citys allies. The Joppa official  was  thrilled  to  hear  of  the  suggested  defection and  due  caravans  of  loot  and  mars  of  war  that Djehuti  foreboded  to  deliver.  He  likewise  granted  a  unit  of Egyptian cavalry to record the city, come by parades and donkeys  carrying  more  than  200  baskets.  Once  inside the  gates  of  Joppa,  the  full  armed  Egyptian soldiers jumped from the baskets, and the charioteers and escort troops joined in taking the defenseless city. Djehuti was efficient to send an immediate message of victory to Tuthmosis III.

The coast of Joppa

Djehuti was buried on the western shore of Thebes, and  his  dead room  regalia  is  now  on  display  in  several European  collections.  The  best  noted  of  these  grave objectives, a golden bowl, is in the Louvre in Paris. The appropriate of Joppa was retold in the level of Ali Baba and the forty thieves  in  the  Tales  of  the arabian nights. The story of the Trojan Horse in the later Greek epic is too alike.

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