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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 ...
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.
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.
This is a List of Amarna letters by size, mostly length X width, and starting with the shortest (in Height). Note: a few Amarna letters are wider than tall, for example EA 290. It should be understood the definition of "mayor" in the Amarna letters. (The definition of King is relatively obvious).
The letter is letter one of three letters authored by him, to the Pharaoh. In the current List of Amarna letters by size, it is the smallest clay tablet letter, being only ~3 in tall by ~2 in wide. 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.
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.