Amarna letter EA 5

Amarna Letter EA5 is a correspondence between Kadašman-Enlil I and Amenhotep III.

Amarna letter EA 5 (Obverse)
Obverse King Kadashman-Enlil I of Babylon (Kardunias) to Pharaoh
Material	Clay
Size	Height: 5.51 in (14.0 cm) Width: 2.75 in (7.0 cm) Thickness: 0.788 in (2.00 cm)
Writing	cuneiform (Akkadian language)
Created	~1375-1335 BC (Amarna Period)
Period/culture	Middle Babylonian
Place	Akhetaten
Present location	British Museum, London BM 29787

The letter exists as two artifacts, one at the British Museum (BM29787) and one in the Cairo Museum (C12195).[1][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.[1][3]

The letter

EA 5: "Gifts of Egyptian Furniture for the Babylonian Palace"

EA 5, letter five of five, Pharaoh to Kadashman-Enlil. (Not a linear, line-by-line translation.)[4]

Obverse: (see here )

Paragraph 1

(Lines 1-12)--[Thus Nibmuar]ey[a¹ Great King, the king of Egypt. Say to] Ka[dašman-Enlil, the king of Karadunniyaš,² my brother: For m]e all goes (well). For you may all go well. For you]r [household, your] wives, [your sons, yo]ur [magnates], yo[ur] troops, [yo]ur [horses], your [chariots], and i[n your countries, may all go] well. [For me al]l goes well. For my household, [my] wives, [my sons], my magnates, my ma[ny] troops, my [horses], my chariots, and in [m]y [countries] all goes very, very well.

Paragraph 2

(13-33)--I have [just]³ heard that you have built some n[ew] quarters.⁴ I am sending herewith some furnishings for your house. Indeed I shall be preparing everything possible⁵ before the arrival of your messenger who is bringing your daughter. When⁶ your messenger returns, I will send (them) to [yo]u. I herewith send you , in the charge of Šutti, a greeting-gift of things for the new house: 1 bed⁷ of ebony, overlaid with ivory and gold; 3 beds of ebony, overlaid with gold; 1 uruššu of ebony, overlaid with gold; 1 lar[ge] chair [o]f ebo[ny], overlaid with gold.⁸ These things, the weight of all the gold: 7 minas, 9 shekels, of silver⁹ (In addition), 10 footrests of ebony; [ . . . ] of ebony, overlaid with gold; [ . . . ] footrests of ivory, overlaid with gold; [ . . . ] . . . of gold. [Total¹⁰ x] minas, 10 and 7 shekels, of gold.--(complete, lacunas throughout, lines 1-33)

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See also

• Chronology of the ancient Near East
• Amarna letters: EA 1, EA 2, EA 3, EA 4, EA 6, EA 7, EA 8, EA 9, EA 10, EA 11
• List of Amarna letters by size
  • EA 5, EA 9, EA 15, EA 19, EA 26, EA 27, EA 35, EA 38
  • EA 153, EA 161, EA 288, EA 364, EA 365, EA 367

External links

• Photo EA 5, Obverse, (British Museum piece: BM 29787)
• Photo EA 5, Reverse, (British Museum piece: BM 29787) (note: line 17 from Obverse extends across the entire Reverse (upside down cuneiform))
• British Museum page for Amarna letter EA 5

References

1. W.L.Moran (edited and translated). The Amarna Letters (PDF). published by the Johns Hopkins University Press - Baltimore, London. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-14. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
2. P. Sundberg - El-Amarna Tablets Archived 2015-07-04 at the Wayback Machine West Semitic Research Project (University of Southern California) [Retrieved 2015-07-05]
3. 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]
4. Moran, William L. 1987, 1992. The Amarna Letters. EA 5, "Gifts of Egyptian Furniture for the Babylonian Palace", pp. 10-11.