Amarna letter EA 10 | |
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![]() Obverse of EA 10 | |
Material | Clay |
Created | c. 1350 BC |
Amarna Letter EA10 (see here: [1]) is the letter of the Amarna series of diplomatic correspondence designated EA 10, which is written in cuneiform writing showing the continuation of a correspondence between Burna-Buriash II (otherwise known as Burra-Buriyaš) an ancient king of Babylon (named Karduniaš in the 1350 BC Amarna time period), and Akhenaten (also known as Amenophis IV), an ancient pharaoh of Egypt. [1]
Some part of the contents of the letter indicates (in addition to EA11) that the Egyptian pharaoh married his daughters (named Meritaten and Ankhesenpaaten) at a time when they were about 11 or 12 years of age. [1]
Within the letter Burna-Buriash II praises the craftsmen of the land of Akhenaten, and requests a model of an animal, either land or aquatic, and he is apparently indifferent to which of the two the pharaoh should choose to have created. [2]
The letter is part of a series of correspondences from Babylonia to Egypt, which run from EA2 to EA4 and EA6 to EA14. EA1 and EA5 are from Egypt to Babylonia. [3]
EA 10, letter number five of six, from Karduniash ( Babylon), by King Burna-Buriash II. (Not a linear, line-by-line translation.) [4]
Obverse (see here: [2])
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Amarna letter EA 10 | |
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![]() Obverse of EA 10 | |
Material | Clay |
Created | c. 1350 BC |
Amarna Letter EA10 (see here: [1]) is the letter of the Amarna series of diplomatic correspondence designated EA 10, which is written in cuneiform writing showing the continuation of a correspondence between Burna-Buriash II (otherwise known as Burra-Buriyaš) an ancient king of Babylon (named Karduniaš in the 1350 BC Amarna time period), and Akhenaten (also known as Amenophis IV), an ancient pharaoh of Egypt. [1]
Some part of the contents of the letter indicates (in addition to EA11) that the Egyptian pharaoh married his daughters (named Meritaten and Ankhesenpaaten) at a time when they were about 11 or 12 years of age. [1]
Within the letter Burna-Buriash II praises the craftsmen of the land of Akhenaten, and requests a model of an animal, either land or aquatic, and he is apparently indifferent to which of the two the pharaoh should choose to have created. [2]
The letter is part of a series of correspondences from Babylonia to Egypt, which run from EA2 to EA4 and EA6 to EA14. EA1 and EA5 are from Egypt to Babylonia. [3]
EA 10, letter number five of six, from Karduniash ( Babylon), by King Burna-Buriash II. (Not a linear, line-by-line translation.) [4]
Obverse (see here: [2])
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