Amarna letter EA 364

Amarna letter EA 364, titled: Justified War, is a tall narrow clay tablet letter of correspondence, about 5 in x 3 in, and in relatively pristine condition. Because of its narrowness, each line only averages 4–7 cuneiform characters in the Akkadian language.

Letter EA 364 is one of the Amarna letters, about 300, numbered up to EA 382, mid 14th century BC, about 1350 BC and 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.

Letter EA 364 is from Ayyab to the Pharaoh, and is a response to the King (pharaoh) referring to a letter from the Pharaoh's messenger Tahmassi; Ayyab, the governing-man (often—("who/which"-(ša))-"man, city")-Aštartu, is in control of one of the city-states in Canaan, and is stating his continued support of guarding his city, (and his region), after 3 regional cities were taken in warfare-hostilities.

The following English language text, and Akkadian is from Rainey, 1970, El Amarna Tablets, 359-379:

Akkadian:

Moran's non-linear letter English language translation (translated from the French language):

EA 364, Obverse:

EA 364, continued Bottom, Reverse:

Often personal names (PN) contain special cuneiform characters, and Tahmassi's name, spelled "Atahmaya" is an example of such. Sign "tah" (based on the more common "qab"-"GABA"-) can be seen in line 13—^IA-TaH-Ma-iYa. (In the photo of EA 364 (obverse), the cuneiform signs become out-of-focus below lines 9 and 10.) The "tah" sign has only one use, as tah, in the Epic of Gilgamesh, (12 times).

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