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Amarna letter EA 27 is a letter addressed to Amenhotep IV and concerns "The Missing Gold Statues Again".
The letter is dated to a period within the very beginning of the second regnal year of the pharaoh, and was written by
Causing His Name To Live: Studies in Egyptian Epigraphy and History in Memory of William J. Murnane (page 71)
''Culture and History of the Ancient Near East'', BRILL, 8 Oct 2009, 256 pages, etrieved 2015-07-03/ref>
The letter is dated to a period within the very beginning of the second regnal year of the pharaoh, and was written by Tushratta
Tushratta (Akkadian: and ) was a king of Mitanni, c. 1358–1335 BCE, at the end of the reign of Amenhotep III and throughout the reign of Akhenaten. He was the son of Shuttarna II. Tushratta stated that he was the grandson of Artatama I. His si ...
, who was living at Washukanni. At the time the pharaoh was located at Thebes.
The letter is thought to contain a reference to a royal funeral.P.F. Dorman Causing His Name To Live: Studies in Egyptian Epigraphy and History in Memory of William J. Murnane (page 71)
''Culture and History of the Ancient Near East'', BRILL, 8 Oct 2009, 256 pages, etrieved 2015-07-03/ref>
See also
* List of Amarna letters by size **Amarna letter EA 5
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 ...
, EA 9, EA 15, EA 19, EA 26, EA 27, EA 35, EA 38
** EA 153, EA 161, EA 288, EA 364, EA 365, EA 367
References
{{Reflist Amarna letters Mitanni