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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 ...
Pirissi and Tulubri are the messengers of King Tushratta of Mitanni, and are referenced in Amarna letters EA 27, 28, and EA 29, (EA for 'el Amarna'). Queen Tiye of the letter is the Great Royal Wife of Amenhotep III-(Akhenaten's father–(Akhenaten=Amenhotep IV)). The letter EA 28 is by King Tushratta of Mitanni, sent to Akhenaten, King of ...
Amarna letter EA 330, from Šipṭi-Ba'la, (mayor)/governor of Lachish. (very high-resolution expandable photo) Amarna letter EA 330, titled: "Dirt at the Feet of the King" [1] is an ovate-(squarish)-shaped, small-sized letter, from Šipṭi-Ba'la the mayor/ruler of Lachish (Tel Lachish), of the mid 14th century BC Amarna letters.
The Amarna letters text corpus contains 382 numbered letters; there are "sub-Text corpora" in the letters, most notably the 68-letter corpus of Rib-Hadda of Gubla–. EA is for 'el Amarna '. Localities/rulers
The Mitanni Letter is a term used in historiography to refer to a document written in the Hurrian language by the Mitanni king Tushratta, dating from the first half of the 14th century BCE. The letter was discovered in 1887 in Amarna. Originally, it consisted of 494 lines, but only 466 lines have been preserved either in whole or in fragments.
Amarna letter EA 35, titled The Hand of Nergal, [1] is a moderate length clay tablet letter from the king of Alashiya (modern Cyprus) to the king of Egypt (photo, high resolution ). The letter has multiple short paragraphs, with scribed, single-lines showing the paragraphing. Paragraphs I-VII are on the letter's obverse; paragraph VIII starts ...
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. The initial corpus of letters were found at Akhenaten's city Akhetaten, in the floor of the Bureau of Correspondence of Pharaoh; others were later found, adding to the body of letters.
Endaruta was the ruler of Achshaph-(Akšapa of the letters), in the 1350-1335 BC Amarna letters correspondence. Endaruta was the author of EA 223 ( EA for 'el Amarna ') of the letters. He is only referenced in two other letters EA 366 and 367 , but EA 367, entitled: "From the Pharaoh to a vassal" is addressed to Endaruta, with instructions to ...