Royal letter from Amenḥotep III, the king of Egypt, to Kadašman-Enlil, the king of Karduniaš (Kassite Babylonia); see also EA 5 below. Excavated in Akhetaten (el-ʿAmārna), the tablet is now kept in the British Museum (BM 29784). Goren, Finkelstein and Naʾaman 2004 conclude that the clay was produced of Esna marl of the Esna Shale Formation in Egypt with the addition of some sand and straw temper, a combination yet unknown from New Kingdom Egyptian ceramics (pp. 24-25). With regard to content, the text includes 98 lines. Rainey (2015: 1323) writes, “This is one of the most difficult texts in the entire corpus. Although the scribe was trying to write a passable MB [Middle Babylonian], there are many passages that do not seem to run smoothly.” According to Cochavi-Rainey (2011: 3-4), “The text itself is a draft of the letter that was actually sent.” Photograph and line drawing available on CDLI.
Royal letter from Amenḥotep III, the king of Egypt, to Kadašman-Enlil, the king of Karduniaš (Kassite Babylonia); see also EA 1 above. The original text exists in two fragments, the main portion current housed in the British Museum (BM 29787) with a fragment of the lower left corner of the obverse in the Cairo Museum (CM 12195).
Client letter from IŠKUR-UR.SAG, the ruler of Gath-Padalla, to the king of Egypt; see also EA 249 above. The text is housed in the Cairo Museum (CM 4769) and thus petrographic analysis is not included in Goren et al. 2004. The tablet includes 60 lines about the two traitorous sons of Labʾayu. Line drawing available on CDLI.