Author: Percy Stuart Peache Handcock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Amarna Letters
Author: William L. Moran
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9780801867156
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An ancient inscription identified some of the ruins at el Amarna as "The Place of the Letters of the Pharaoh." Discovered there, circa 1887, were nearly four hundred cuneiform tablets containing correspondence of the Egyptian court with rulers of neighboring states in the mid-fourteenth century B.C. Previous translations of these letters were both incomplete and reflected an imperfect understanding of the Babylonian dialects in which they were written. William Moran devoted a lifetime of study to the Amarna letters to prepare this authoritative English translation. The letters provide a vivid record of high-level diplomatic exchanges that, by modern standards, are often less than diplomatic. An Assyrian ruler complains that the Egyptian king's latest gift of gold was not even sufficient to pay the cost of the messengers who brought it. The king of Babylon refuses to give his daughter in marriage to the pharaoh without first having proof that the king's sister—already one of the pharaoh's many wives—is still alive and well. The king of Karaduniyash complains that the Egyptian court has "detained" his messenger—for the past six years. And Egyptian vassal Rib-Hadda, writing from the besieged port of Byblos, repeatedly demands military assistance for his city or, failing that, an Egyptian ship to permit his own escape.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9780801867156
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An ancient inscription identified some of the ruins at el Amarna as "The Place of the Letters of the Pharaoh." Discovered there, circa 1887, were nearly four hundred cuneiform tablets containing correspondence of the Egyptian court with rulers of neighboring states in the mid-fourteenth century B.C. Previous translations of these letters were both incomplete and reflected an imperfect understanding of the Babylonian dialects in which they were written. William Moran devoted a lifetime of study to the Amarna letters to prepare this authoritative English translation. The letters provide a vivid record of high-level diplomatic exchanges that, by modern standards, are often less than diplomatic. An Assyrian ruler complains that the Egyptian king's latest gift of gold was not even sufficient to pay the cost of the messengers who brought it. The king of Babylon refuses to give his daughter in marriage to the pharaoh without first having proof that the king's sister—already one of the pharaoh's many wives—is still alive and well. The king of Karaduniyash complains that the Egyptian court has "detained" his messenger—for the past six years. And Egyptian vassal Rib-Hadda, writing from the besieged port of Byblos, repeatedly demands military assistance for his city or, failing that, an Egyptian ship to permit his own escape.
The El-Amarna Correspondence (2 vol. set)
Author: Anson F. Rainey
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004281541
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1671
Book Description
The El-Amarna Correspondence offers a completely new edition of the Amarna Letters based on personal inspection and reading of all the extant tablets. This edition includes new transcriptions and a translation along with an extensive introduction and glossary of the Amarna Letters.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004281541
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1671
Book Description
The El-Amarna Correspondence offers a completely new edition of the Amarna Letters based on personal inspection and reading of all the extant tablets. This edition includes new transcriptions and a translation along with an extensive introduction and glossary of the Amarna Letters.
The Tell El-Amarna Tablets in the British Museum with Autotype Facsimiles
Selections from the Tell-el-Amarna Letters
Author: Percy Stuart Peache Handcock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Tell El Amarna Period
The Tell-el-Amarna-letters
The Tell El-Amarna Tablets
Author: Frank Hudson Hallock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780404182175
Category : Tell el-Amarna tablets
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780404182175
Category : Tell el-Amarna tablets
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
The Tell El-Amarna Tablets
The Tell Amarna Tablets
Author: Tell-el-Amarna tablets. English
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Inscribed in Clay
Author: Yuval Goren
Publisher: Emery and Claire Yass Archaeology Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Examines letters from the Tell el-Amarna archive in Egypt, written between Egypt and other Middle Eastern nations ca. 1360-1334 B.C. Uses material and chemical analysis for provenance information and historical geography.
Publisher: Emery and Claire Yass Archaeology Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Examines letters from the Tell el-Amarna archive in Egypt, written between Egypt and other Middle Eastern nations ca. 1360-1334 B.C. Uses material and chemical analysis for provenance information and historical geography.