In
the fourteenth century, a city of urusalim is mentioned in
a correspondence that was discovered in Tell el-Amarna, the residence
of Amenophis IV or Akhenaten (1350-34) which also housed the archives
of his father, Pharao Amenhotep (Amenophis) III (1386-49). The name of
the city's ruler is given as King
Abdi Heba. The deity to which his name pays homage, heba(t),
was particularly associated with the Hurrians, whose kingdom of Mitanni had
dominated the Bronze Age Levant until it was destroyed by the Hittites.
The by-name of the goddess heba(t) was "the mother of all living,"
an epithet echoed in the biblical name of the first mother, Eve.