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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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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Amarna (/əˈmɑːrnə/; Arabic: العمارنة, romanized: al-ʿAmārna) is an extensive ancient Egyptian archaeological site containing the ruins of Akhetaten, the...
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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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Canaan (category Amarna letters locations)
Canaan had significant geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna Period (14th century BC) as the area where the spheres of interest of the...
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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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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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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)
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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Subartu (redirect from Subartu (Amarna letters corpus))
inhabuted by the Subarians. 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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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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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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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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Canaano-Akkadian or Amarna Canaanite is an ancient Semitic language which was the written language of the Amarna letters from Canaan, Alashiya and Amurru...
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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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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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refers to the city as "Jerusalem". An example of these records are the Amarna letters, several of which were written by the chieftain of Jerusalem Abdi-Heba...
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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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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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Ili-Rapih (category Amarna letters writers)
prolific author of letters to pharaoh); Ili-Rapih is in the 1350-1335 BC Amarna letters correspondence, and wrote 2 follow-on letters to the Pharaoh after...
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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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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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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 sa.gaz, which...
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material for wall filler in new construction. Amarna letters A key find was a number of cuneiform tablets from Amarna in Egypt, the city of the pharaoh Akhenaten...
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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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the Amarna letters, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and other cuneiform texts (for example Hittite texts). It has a secondary sub-use in the Amarna letters for...
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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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Sumerogram). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cuneiform signs, Amarna letters. The cuneiform sign LÚ (𒇽) is the sign used for "man"; its complement...
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