Amarna letter EA 369 explained

Amarna letter EA 369 is a letter written on a clay tablet from the pharaoh to Milkilu of Gezer. The tablet is now housed in the Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, in Brussels.

The letter is one of a small number of the Amarna Letters that were written in Egypt, and sent out from the pharaoh to vassals. Other Amarna letters sent to vassals included EA 99, 162, 163, 190, 367, and 370.

The letter

The letter details the king sending female cupbearers, silver, linen garments, carnelian, precious stones, an ebony chair, with a total value of 160 deben.^[1] It also states that he is sending forty female cupbearers, which are recorded as 40 silver each. Some linguistic features of the letter indicate that the scribe also may have been of Gezer origin.^[2]

Translation

The letter has been translated by Dossin (1934), Rainey (2014) and Moran (1992). Moran's (1992) translation is below:

Notes and References

1. Book: Rainey, Anson F. . The El-Amarna correspondence : a new edition of the cuneiform letters from the site of El-Amarna based on collations of all extant tablets . 2014 . Brill . 978-90-04-28154-7 . Leiden . 1251 . en . 897378910.
2. S. Izre'el - Language and Culture in the Near East (p.116) Israel Oriental Studies, BRILL, 1995, 279 pages, [Retrieved 2015-07-04]