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Amarna letters |
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An archive of diplomatic correspondence exchanged in the fourteenth century BC between the Egyptian king and neighbouring courts, some of which were his vassals while others were also ‘great kings’. The archive, which consists of 382 cuneiform tablets, was written chiefly in Akkadian, the diplomatic language (sense 3) of the time. It takes its name from the place of its discovery in 1887: El Amarna, a plain on the east bank of the Nile about 190 miles south of Cairo which was the site of the capital of Egypt for a short period in the fourteenth century BC. The correspondence is unique in the extent of the insights that it provides into the diplomatic system of the Ancient Near East. An authoritative English translation, resting on the steady advance in understanding of the letters during the twentieth century, was published by William L. Moran in 1992. See also cuneiform diplomacy. |
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