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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Subartu (redirect from Subartu (Amarna letters corpus))
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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Akhenaten (section Founding Amarna)
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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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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EN (cuneiform) (section Amarna letters: bêlu)
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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Suteans (section Amarna letters)
(modern-day Tell Ashara, Syria). They are mentioned in eight of the 382 Amarna letters. They are listed in documents from the Middle Assyrian Empire (1395-1075...
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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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Lugal (section Lugal in the Amarna letters)
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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Ud (cuneiform) (section Amarna letters usage)
(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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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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U (cuneiform) (section Amarna letters uses)
(cuneiform). The cuneiform U sign is found in both the 14th century BC Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh. It can be used for the alphabetic u, instead...
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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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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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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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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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Geshur (section Amarna letters)
of Geshur had disappeared from history. Two of the Late Bronze Age Amarna letters (EA 256 and EA 364) identify 'the land of Garu', as a disputed territory...
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undamaged Amarna letter, (see here: [1]), and can be seen to be inscribed on the Obverse, Bottom, Reverse, and Right & Left sides. The Amarna letters, about...
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KÁ (section Amarna letters)
cuneiform sign KÁ, for gate is the Sumerogram-(logogram) used in the Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh; as just KÁ it means "gate" or "doorway",...
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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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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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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 letter EA 23, titled: "A Goddess Travels to Egypt", is a short letter to Pharaoh from Tushratta. Due to the ill health of Pharaoh, a statue of Goddess...
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related to Amarna letter EA 19, Tushratta to Pharaoh, "Love and Gold". Amarna letters–phrases and quotations List of Amarna letters by size Amarna letter...
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individual groups without reference to any of the other groups. The Amarna letters, around the mid-14th century BC, including four relating to the Sea...
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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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