Amarna letter EA 5 (Obverse) | |
Material: | Clay |
Size: | Height: 5.51inches Width: 2.75inches Thickness: 0.788inches |
Writing: | cuneiform (Akkadian language) |
Created: | ~1375-1335 BC (Amarna Period) |
Period: | Middle Babylonian |
Place: | Akhetaten |
Location: | British Museum, London BM 29787 |
Amarna Letter EA5, one of the Amarna letters (cited with the abbreviation EA, for "El Amarna"), is a correspondence between Kadašman-Enlil I and Amenhotep III.
The letter exists as two artifacts, one at the British Museum (BM29787) and one in the Cairo Museum (C12195).[1] [2]
The letter is part of a series of correspondences from Babylonia to Egypt, which run from EA2 to EA4 and EA6 to EA14. EA1 and EA5 are from Egypt to Babylonia.[1] [3]
EA 5, letter five of five, Pharaoh to Kadashman-Enlil. (Not a linear, line-by-line translation.)[4]
Obverse: (see here https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?partid=1&assetid=312255001&objectid=274201)
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