Amarna Letter EA5, one of the

Amarna letters The Amarna letters (; sometimes referred to as the Amarna correspondence or Amarna tablets, and cited with the abbreviation EA, for "El Amarna") are an archive, written on clay tablets, primarily consisting of diplomatic correspondence between t ...

(cited with the abbreviation EA, for "El Amarna"), is a correspondence between Kadašman-Enlil I and

Amenhotep III Amenhotep III ( egy, jmn-ḥtp(.w), ''Amānəḥūtpū'' , "Amun is Satisfied"; Hellenized as Amenophis III), also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent or Amenhotep the Great, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. According to different ...

. The letter exists as two artifacts, one at the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

(BM29787) and one in the

Cairo Museum The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum or the Cairo Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities. It has 120,000 items, with a representative amount on display ...

(C12195). The letter is part of a series of correspondences from

Babylonia Babylonia (; Akkadian: , ''māt Akkadī'') was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria). It emerged as an Amorite-ruled state c. ...

to Egypt, which run from EA2 to EA4 and EA6 to EA14. EA1 and EA5 are from

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

to Babylonia.

The letter

EA 5: ''Gifts of Egyptian Furniture for the Babylonian Palace''

EA 5, letter five of five, Pharaoh to Kadashman-Enlil. (Not a linear, line-by-line translation.) Moran, William L. 1987, 1992. ''The Amarna Letters.'' EA 5, ''"Gifts of Egyptian Furniture for the Babylonian Palace"'', pp. 10-11. ''Obverse'': (see her

:''Paragraph 1'' :''Paragraph 2''

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Photo EA 5, Obverse, (British Museum piece: BM 29787)Photo EA 5, Reverse, (British Museum piece: BM 29787)
(note: line 17 from Obverse extends across the entire Reverse (upside down cuneiform))
British Museum page for Amarna letter EA 5CDLI entry of EA 5 ( ''Chicago Digital Library Initiative'' )CDLI listing of all EA Amarna letters, 1-382
{{British Museum Amarna letters

The letter

EA 5: ''Gifts of Egyptian Furniture for the Babylonian Palace''

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