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English Egyptologist Sir John Gardner Wilkinson visited Amarna twice in the 1820s and identified it as Alabastron, [6] following the sometimes contradictory descriptions of Roman-era authors Pliny (On Stones) and Ptolemy , [7] [8] although he was not sure about the identification and suggested Kom el-Ahmar as an alternative location.
Amarna: The Amarna Texts: Provides searchable transliterations of the cuneiform texts found at Tell el-Amarna. Contributed by Shlomo Izre'el CAMS: Corpus of Ancient Mesopotamian Scholarship: Offers searchable editions of texts, divided into sub-projects (some of which also include contextual information and interpretations).
The Amarna letters (/ ə ˈ m ɑːr n ə /; sometimes referred to as the Amarna correspondence or Amarna tablets, and cited with the abbreviation EA, for "El Amarna") are an archive, written on clay tablets, primarily consisting of diplomatic correspondence between the Egyptian administration and its representatives in Canaan and Amurru, or ...
Amarna art, or the Amarna style, is a style adopted in the Amarna Period during and just after the reign of Akhenaten (r. 1351–1334 BC) in the late Eighteenth Dynasty, during the New Kingdom. Whereas ancient Egyptian art was famously slow to change, the Amarna style was a significant and sudden break from its predecessors both in the style of ...
Amarna Letter EA 16 is part of the corpus of the Amarna Letters, a set of letters written mostly in Akkadian found at the Egyptian capital of Tell El-Amarna. [1] The text records a correspondence from Ashur-uballit I, Founder of the Middle Assyrian Empire, to an uncertain ruler of Ancient Egypt.
The Amarna letter EA1 is part of an archive of clay tablets containing the diplomatic correspondence between Egypt and other Near Eastern rulers during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten, his predecessor Amenhotep III and his successors. These tablets were discovered in el-Amarna and are therefore known as the Amarna letters.
The sole worship of Aten can be referred to as Atenism. Many of the core principles of Atenism were recorded in the capital city Akhenaten founded and moved his dynastic government to, Akhetaten, referred to as either Amarna, El-Amarna, or Tell el-Amarna by modern scholars. In Atenism, night is a time to fear. [11]
This is a list of Amarna letters–Text corpus, categorized by: Amarna letters–localities and their rulers. It includes countries, regions, and the cities or city-states . The regions are included in Canaan and the Levant.