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    Amarna letters (/əˈmɑːrnə/; sometimes referred to as the Amarna correspondence or Amarna tablets, and cited with the abbreviation EA, for "El Amarna")...
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    Amarna (/əˈmɑːrnə/; Arabic: العمارنة, romanized: al-ʿAmārna) is an extensive ancient Egyptian archaeological site containing the remains of what was the...
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  • The Amarna Period was an era of Egyptian history during the later half of the Eighteenth Dynasty when the royal residence of the pharaoh and his queen...
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    mentioned in Bronze Age literature. The name also appears as Subari in the Amarna letters, and, in the form Šbr, in Ugarit. Subartu was apparently a kingdom in...
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    Ashur-uballit I (category Amarna letters writers)
    the Amarna letters, a series of diplomatic letters from various Middle Eastern monarchs to Amenhotep III and Akhenaten of Egypt, we find two letters from...
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  • This is a list of Amarna letters–Text corpus, categorized by: Amarna letters–localities and their rulers. It includes countries, regions, and the cities...
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  • the Amarna Period in the Late Bronze Age. He ruled the city of Akko during the Amarna Period in the reigns of Akhenaten and Tutankhamen. In letters he...
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    During the Amarna period, however, royal and religious texts and inscriptions, including the boundary stelae at Akhetaten or the Amarna letters, started...
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  • to make bêlí, or its equivalent. Some example letters using cuneiform EN are letters EA (for El Amarna) 252, EA 254, and EA 282, titled: "A demand for...
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    Canaan (category Amarna letters locations)
    Amurru (Amarna letters) Labaya, lord of Shechem (Amarna letters) Abdi-Heba, local chieftain of pre-Israelite Jerusalem (Jebus) (Amarna letters) Šuwardata...
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    Tushratta (category Amarna letters writers)
    Tadukhipa to wife" Amarna letter EA 23, "A Goddess travels to Egypt" Amarna letter EA 24, Amarna letter EA 25, Amarna letters EA 25 Amarna letter EA 27, "The...
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    contemporary sovereign in Sumerian. The term Lugal is used extensively in the Amarna letters, for addressing kings or pharaohs, and elsewhere in speaking about various...
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  • Tob (section Amarna letters)
    refuge. Tob is also a town referred to in the Amarna letters, circa 1350 BCE. Among the c. 382 letters (EA 1 through EA 382) there is only one mention...
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    Labaya (category Amarna letters writers)
    during the Amarna Period (c. 1350 BC). He lived contemporaneously with Pharaoh Akhenaten. Labaya is mentioned in several of the Amarna Letters (abbreviated...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Glossenkeil (Amarna letters). The Glossenkeil (Amarna letters), is a form of the common glossenkeil—𒃵 used in the...
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    (cuneiform). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cuneiform signs, Amarna letters. The cuneiform ud sign, also ut, and with numerous other syllabic and...
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    Alashiya (category Amarna letters locations)
    name may be the origin of the later Biblical term Elishah. Some of the Amarna letters are from the king or the ministers of Alashiya. They concern mostly...
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  • Satatna (category Amarna letters writers)
    ruler of Akko. In the Amarna Archive, Satatna was the author of three letters (EA 233-235) to the Pharaoh. He is also mentioned letters by Bayadi a mayor...
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    Hanigalbat. Tushratta, who styles himself "king of Mitanni" in his Akkadian Amarna letters, refers to his kingdom as Hanigalbat. The earliest attestation of the...
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    Sebakh (section Amarna)
    to be pharaonic records of correspondence. These tablet letters, known as the Amarna Letters, have provided much valuable historical and chronological...
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    Arqa (category Amarna letters locations)
    strategically significant castle. It is mentioned in Antiquity in the Amarna letters of Egypt-(as Irqata), as well as in Assyrian documents. The Roman town...
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    Arzawa (category Amarna letters locations)
    center at the site of the later Temple of Artemis. The Amarna letters include a pair of letters between the Arzawan ruler Tarhundaradu and the Egyptian...
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    of Hana. Around 1350 BCE, the Suteans are mentioned in 8 of 382 Amarna letters. Amarna Letter EA195 mentions the Suteans and is entitled "Waiting for the...
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  • is numbered VAT 335, from the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin. The Amarna letters, about 300, numbered up to EA 382, are a mid 14th century BC, about...
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  • Kadesh (Syria) (category Amarna letters locations)
    some importance during the Late Bronze Age and is mentioned in the Amarna letters. It was the site of the Battle of Kadesh between the Hittite and Egyptian...
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    ʿApiru (category Amarna letters)
    read the sumerograms as this word. However, the Amarna letters attested the spelling SA.GA.AZ, and letters from Ugarit attested the spelling SAG.GAZ, which...
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    ancient city in the southern Levant. Mentioned as a Canaanite city in the Amarna Letters, it later appears in the Hebrew Bible as the first capital of the Kingdom...
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    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...
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    Atenism (redirect from Amarna heresy)
    Atenism, also known as the Aten religion, the Amarna religion, and the Amarna heresy, was a religion in ancient Egypt. It was founded by Akhenaten, a...
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    visiting Egypt. A final conditions letter (players and regions). The Amarna letters, about 300, numbered up to EA 382, are a mid 14th century BC, about...
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