Pítati

They are recorded in the correspondence of the 1350 BC Amarna letters, and were often requested to defend against the Habiru, also rogue vassal-kings and foreign troops of neighboring kingdoms (for example, Hatti), who were on the attack.

A request for lodging, and preparations of food, drink, straw, and other supplies required,[1] is often demanded by the pharaoh, for a small, or a large contingent.

The pitati archer force were mercenaries from the southern Egyptian "land of Kush" (named Kaša, or Kaši in the letters).

A vassal–state letter example from Hiziru, a "mayor", often referred to as the "Man (Lugal) of the City", in ancient Palestine is EA 337, entitled "Abundant supplies ready".

-EA 269, lines 1-17 (complete)Part of the debate in analyzing the army-archer-force is whether the army just annually accompanied the pharaoh's commissioner or envoy and were then extracting tribute, or whether the archer-force duty was strictly military, and in support of the Egyptian borderlands control and influence.

Rahotep , a superintendent of the military, and military supplies, including archers–(Note Archer hieroglyph, and quiver hieroglyph).
(Superintendent-(overseer): is ‘ Emir ’ , represented by the Owl above mouth hieroglyphs, for "m-r" , 'emeer'.)
A group of Egyptian soldiers and Nubian mercenaries holding axes, bows, and quivers of arrows. From the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, c. 1470 BCE. Neues Museum, Berlin