Zimredda, a mayor of Lachish in the…
1353 BCE to 1342 BCE
Zimredda, a mayor of Lachish in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, is mentioned in the Amarna letters from 1350-1335 BCE, and is the author of EA 329, (EA for 'el Amarna').
Only two other references in the corpus are made to "Zimredda of Lakiša"– (Lachish).
He is part of the subject of letter EA 333, titled: "Plots and disloyalty".
His death is reported in EA 288 by Abdi-Heba–(letter no. 4 of 6), at the hands of the Habiru.
The next mayor of Lakiša is Šipti-Ba'lu, author of letters EA 330-332.