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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 letter EA 366 is from the king of Gath to the king of Egypt. The letter (part of the Amarna letters correspondence) reports of the king having smote down the uprising of the Habiru. [1] The letter begins with an address which is thought typical of the usual beginning of reportage of intelligence. [2]
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.
Amarna letter EA 367, titled From the Pharaoh to a Vassal, [1] is a medium-small, square clay tablet Amarna letter to Endaruta of Achshaph, (Akšapa of the letters), one of only about 10 letters of the el-Amarna corpus, that is from the Pharaoh of Egypt to his correspondent. (Two of the Pharaonic letters are lists, and not a 'letter' per se.)
These tablets were discovered in el-Amarna and are therefore known as the Amarna letters. All of the tablets are inscribed with cuneiform writing. [1] [2] The letters EA1 to EA14 contain the correspondence between Egypt and Babylonia. Only two of them, EA1 and EA5, were sent from Egypt to Babylonia. The other twelve were written by Babylonians.
Amarna letter EA 270-(29 lines) is nearly identical in shape to EA 271-(27 lines), with the beginning lines of the obverse, nearly identical in wording, and spacing. The Amarna letters , about 300, numbered up to EA 382, are a mid 14th century BC, about 1350 BC and 20–25 years later, correspondence .
EA 288, from Abdi-Heba, letter 4 of 6 from Jerusalem. (very high-resolution expandable photo) Amarna letter EA 289, titled: "A Reckoning Demanded," [1] is a moderately tall, finely-inscribed clay tablet letter, approximately 6.5 in tall, from Abdi-Heba the mayor/ruler of Jerusalem, of the mid 14th century BC Amarna letters.
One of the Amarna letters. A letter from Abdi-Ḫeba of Jerusalem to the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III. 1st half of the 14th century BCE. From Tell el-Amarna, Egypt. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin. Abdi-Ḫeba (Abdi-Kheba, Abdi-Ḫepat, or Abdi-Ḫebat) was a local chieftain of Jerusalem during the Amarna period (mid-1330s BC).