The
Tawagalawa letter (
CTH 181) was written by a
Hittite king (generally accepted as
Hattusili III) to a king of
Ahhiyawa around
1250 BC. This letter, of which only the third tablet has been preserved, concerns the activities of an adventurer
Piyama-Radu against the Hittites, and requests his extradition to Hatti under assurances of safe conduct. It is so named because it mentions a brother of the king of
Ahhiyawa named
Tawagalawa, a name suggested by numerous scholars, to be a Hittite representation of the Greek name
Eteocles (
Etewoklewes).