Amarna letter EA 323
Amarna letter EA 323, titled: A Royal Order for Glass, is a smaller, square, mostly flat clay tablet letter written on both sides, but only half of the reverse; it is also written on the bottom, and is a letter from 'governor' Yidya, and is a short letter like many of his other Amarna letters, numbered EA 320 to EA 326.
EA 323 is so short that it can be described as: a prostration formula to the Pharaoh (the letter is written to the King/Pharaoh), a statement of him guarding his city-state of Ashkelon-(Ašqaluna of the letters), and the subject of delivering glass to the King of Egypt.
The clay tablet letter is located at the British Museum, no. BM 29836. (Obverse, see here:[2])
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The Amarna letters, about 300, numbered up to EA 382, are a mid 14th century BC, about 1350 BC and 20–25 years later, correspondence. The initial corpus of letters were found at Akhenaten's city Akhetaten, in the floor of the Bureau of Correspondence of Pharaoh; others were later found, adding to the body of letters.
EA 323, letter four of seven. (Not a linear, line-by-line translation, and English from French.)
Obverse:
Bottom & Reverse:
The Akkadian language text:
Obverse:
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