# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/labaya
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:15:00.253Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/labaya"
name: "Labaya"
slug: "labaya"
description: "Labaya was a Canaanite prince and the ruler of Shechem in the central hill country of southern Canaan during the Amarna Period. He lived contemporaneously with the pharaoh Akhenaten. Labaya is mentioned in several of the Amarna Letters. He is the author of letters EA 252–54."
tagline: "14th-century BCE (Amarna period) ruler or warlord in the central hill country of southern Canaan (Samaria)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Amarna_letter._Letter_from_Labayu_%28ruler_of_Shechem%29_to_the_Egyptian_Pharaoh_Amenhotep_III_or_his_son_Akhenaten._14th_century_BCE._From_Tell_el-Amarna%2C_Egypt._British_Museum.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "-1400"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           42.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.553781333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%8F"
    title: "Лабайя"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "لابعيا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab'aia"
    title: "Lab'aia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labaya"
    title: "Labaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labaya"
    title: "Labaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%91%D7%90%D7%99%D7%94"
    title: "לבאיה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labaya"
    title: "Labaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q359130"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump