Amarna Letter EA6 is a
correspondence from
Burra-Buriyaš to Nimmuwarea(
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 king of Egypt.
According to one source, this letter concerns gifts between two kings.
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.
[W.L.Moran (edited and translated) ]
The Amarna Letters (p.xvi)
published by the Johns Hopkins University Press - Baltimore, London (Brown University
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) etrieved 2015-07-09/ref>
See also
*Amarna letters: EA 1, EA 2
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in May 1982 by Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer game industry and promoted the ...
, EA 3, EA 4, EA 5, EA 7, EA 8, EA 9, EA 10, EA 11
*Bi (cuneiform)
The cuneiform bi sign, also pí, and used for other syllabic forms, as well as a sumerogram, is a common use syllabic and alphabetic cuneiform sign used in both the mid-14th century BC Amarna letters and the ''Epic of Gilgamesh''. In the Am ...
*De Beneficiis
''De Beneficiis'' (English: ''On Benefits'') is a first-century work by Seneca the Younger. It forms part of a series of Morality, moral essays (or "Dialogues") composed by Seneca. ''De Beneficiis'' concerns the award and reception of gifts and f ...
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