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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 ...
by size, mostly length X width, and starting with the shortest (in Height). Note: a few Amarna letters are wider than tall, for example
EA 290.
It should be understood the definition of ''"mayor"'' in the Amarna letters. (The definition of ''King'' is relatively obvious). Some mayors are called the ''"Man Town XXX"''. The obvious description is to call the mayor a
governor
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...
, (the man who governs, no matter the size of the
City-state
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; ("governor" means "govern-or"). The power of local governors depended on conflicts, or
commercial local successes, or of course the discourses, including the everpresent
Habiru
Habiru (sometimes written as Hapiru, and more accurately as ʿApiru, meaning "dusty, dirty"; Sumerian: 𒊓𒄤, ''sagaz''; Akkadian: 𒄩𒁉𒊒, ''ḫabiru'' or ''ʿaperu'') is a term used in 2nd-millennium BCE texts throughout the Fertile C ...
, (
'Apiru
Habiru (sometimes written as Hapiru, and more accurately as ʿApiru, meaning "dusty, dirty"; Sumerian: 𒊓𒄤, ''sagaz''; Akkadian: 𒄩𒁉𒊒, ''ḫabiru'' or ''ʿaperu'') is a term used in 2nd-millennium BCE texts throughout the Fertile ...
).
Amarna letter EA 252
Amarna letter EA 365
Amarna letter EA 15
Amarna letter EA 153
Amarna letter EA 367
Amarna letter EA 364
Amarna letter EA 9
Amarna letter EA 161
Amarna letter EA 38
Amarna letter EA 5
Amarna letter EA 35
Amarna letter EA 26
Amarna letter EA 288
Amarna letter EA 19
Amarna letter EA 27
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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 ...
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British Museum
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Louvre
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Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin
The Vorderasiatisches Museum (, ''Near East Museum'') is an archaeological museum in Berlin. It is in the basement of the south wing of the Pergamon Museum and has one of the world's largest collections of Southwest Asian art. 14 halls distrib ...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
References
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External links
Vorderasiatisches Museum image gallery for VAT153, EA 38British Museum image gallery for E29791, EA 19CDLI listing of all EA Amarna letters, 1-382
''They all can show photos/ or drawings of the individual letter.''
from the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin
The Vorderasiatisches Museum (, ''Near East Museum'') is an archaeological museum in Berlin. It is in the basement of the south wing of the Pergamon Museum and has one of the world's largest collections of Southwest Asian art. 14 halls distrib ...
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