Amarna letter EA12 is a correspondence written to the King of Egypt by a princess of Babylonia.[1]

A scribe named Kidin-Adad is mentioned within the letter.[1]

This 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.[2][3]

During 1888 the Vorderasiatisches Museum received part of the tablet as part of a group of artifacts given to the museum by J.Simon. A second part of EA12 was given to the museum by Felix von Niemeyer.[4]

The letter, translated by W.L. Moran, reads:[3]

(1–6) Speak to my lord; thus the princess: To you, your ch[ariot]s, the [m]en and [your house] may it be well.

(7–12) May the gods of Burraburiash go with you. Go safely and in peace go forward, see your house.

(12–22) In the pre[sence of my lord], thu[s,] I [prostrate myself], saying, “Since G[...] my envoy has brought colored cloth, to your cities and your house, may it be ‹w›ell. Do not murmur in your heart and impose darkness on me.”

Your servant, Kidin-Adad, is located with me(?), as the substitute of my lord, I would verily go.

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References

  1. 1 2 Karen Radner (2014). State Correspondence in the Ancient World: From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire (note.64 of p.214). Oxford studies in early empires, Oxford University Press 2014, 306 pages. ISBN 978-0199354771. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  2. ↑ W.L.Moran (edited and translated) - The Amarna Letters (p.xvi) published by the Johns Hopkins University Press - Baltimore, London (Brown University) [Retrieved 2015-07-09]
  3. 1 2 Moran, W.L. The Amarna Letters (PDF). published by the Johns Hopkins University Press - Baltimore, London (University of Cincinnati’s Faculty Portfolio Initiative). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-14. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
  4. ↑ Anson F. Rainey (Editors - W M. Schniedewind, Z Cochavi-Rainey)- The El-Amarna Correspondence (2 vol. set): A New Edition of the Cuneiform Letters from the Site of El-Amarna based on Collations of all Extant Tablets Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, BRILL, 14 Nov 2014, 1676 pages, ISBN 9004281541 [Retrieved 2015-07-09]
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