[Up: science] [Robot Wisdom home page]

Web resources for the Amarna tablets

"Come yourself, or send your son, and you will see the king at whose sight all lands live."
--Akhenaten to Aziru, c1337 BC (tablet 162)

[source] another [different] 282, 34; three one one one 245

NEW: encyclopedia

A3 called 'Nibmuaria'

Great Kings: Babylon, Mitanni

Hatti, Cyprus

survey

map of mideast, map of Amarna; discovery

Info: AndiD; intro, Lab'aya; Jerusalem; scholarly; politics; minerology, Megiddo ditto; personae; new chronology?; 1913 Cath; newage

280, 286, 288 Jerusalem

237, 244, 245, 246, 250, 252, 253, 254, 255, 280, 287, 289 Lab'aya

17, 35, 75, 79, 244, 286, 298, 365, 367, bridewealth

Lachish, Babylon 1 w/pic 2 3 w/pic, Cyprus (35), Byblos, Assyria, Megiddo, Shechem, Jerusalem 2, Keilah

Tiye

phonetic: 60-114, 115-162, 163-262, 263-381, 340-359, 368, 372-377, 379 'scholarly'

king: Tusratta (Tuisheratta)

17: to A3, sends servants, chariots, horses, jewelry and sweet-oil for sister Kelu-Heba [etext] defeated a Hittite attack [kh171]

18:

19: T sends daughter Taduhepa [kh171]

20:

22:

26:

27:

28:

29: mentions T4's marriage to Artatama's daughter [eci165]

king: Suppiluliuma

41: S to Smenk: 'O King' [kh172] S to A4? ('brother') claims pharaoh's father had approached S's father to normalise relations [eci173]

44?

kings: Abdi-Asirta (Abdi-Ashirta); Aziru

princes: Duppi-Tesub, ?Ba'aluya, ?Batti'ilu (sons of Aziru)

60: A-A to ?A4 ('my Sun, my Lord', 'a servant of the king and a dog of his house') seeks recognition as Egyptian deputy [kh182, eci170]

101? death of A-A mentioned; A-A had some official appointment [kh183, eci170]

95? A-A died of natural causes? or suicide after arrest? [kh184] Tusratta expedition against Amurru [eci171, cf EA85?]

90? Amurru overtaxed by Mitanni [eci171]

86?

98? sons of A-A reoccupy Irqata, Ambi, Sigata, Ardata [kh185]

157: Az to A4 ('my Lord') asks only to serve [kh185]

165: Aziru to A4 claims fears invasion by Hatti [kh186]

164: Aziru to A4's officials ditto [kh186]

149? (report on Aziru's conquests)

151? (report on Aziru's alliance w/Aitakkama)

59? Az threatening Tunip

161? Az residing in Tunip [eci176]

162? (from A4?) Aziru has delivered Rib-Addi to Sidon; dined and drunk with ruler of Kadesh [kh186]

168? Aziru goes to Egypt [kh188]

169: ?D-T to A4 requesting return [kh188]

170: Ba'aluya and Batti'ilu to Aziru reporting Hittite attacks [kh188]

king: Rib-Addi (Rib-Hadda)

sender of: 68-71, 73-79, 81-96, 102-114, 116-119, 121-126, 129-130, 132, 136-138, 362 (141, 142? kh186)

75: plea to ?A4 ('my lord') to send archers re Abdi-Asirta's conquest of Irqata (Arkite, Tell Arqa), Miya of Arasni conquers Ardata [etext] [kh182]

74: A-A conquers Ammiya (Amyun?), threatens Gubla "Like a bird in a trap so I am in Gubla." [k182, 183]

79: [etext]

84? Sumur falls to A-A [kh182]

91?

62? Egyptian commissioner Pahannate withdrawn [kh182]

107: R-A begs for troops [kh185]

106? commissioner killed, Sumur evacuated [kh185]

126: Hittites burning lands [eci174]

136? R-A in exile in Beirut with Ammunira (Hammuniri) [etext]

kings: Suttarna (Sutatarra); Aitakkama (Etakkama)

140: alliance with Aziru [kh176] (cf 162)

55? Ait conquers Qatna (king Akizzi) [kh190]

174? Ait attacks Biryawaza [eic176]

175?

176?

189: Ait is Egyptian vassal [eic167]

king: Ammistamru (Amishtamru); Niqmaddu

45: Am declares allegiance to A4 [kh178, eci168] begs help against Hittites? [eci173]

46:

47:

49: Niq servant of A4 [eci168]

king: Abi-milki

147: "My lord is the Sun god who rises over the foreign lands every day as his gracious father the sun has ordained; one who gives life by his sweet breath and languor when he is hidden, who pacifies the entire land with the power of his mighty arm, who emits his roar in heaven like Ba'al, and the whole earth shakes with his roar." [eci387]

east of Orontes

kings: Akizzi; Addu-nirari

51: to A4, your grandfather annointed my grandfather [eci160]

52?

53: Ak refuses oath to Sup; rumor A4 won't act [eci176]

54:

55:

59:

197?

34: speaks of A4's accession [eci174]

35: sends copper,lumber; requests silver, ox, sweet-oil, expert in eagle-omens, possessions of citizen who died in Egypt; apologises for three year absence of Egyptian messenger; alliance of Egypt w/Hatti pending? [eci173] [etext] w/transliteration

38: raids by Lukkas on coasts of Cyprus and Egypt; refers to A as 'my brother' [kh368]

written in Hittite (Nesite)

king: Tarhundaradu

31: from A3 seeking princess; "the country Hattusa is paralysed" [kh160]

32:

You can submit a new URL or any other suggestion for this page by typing it into the box below. It will instantly become visible to anyone at this comments page. I should get around to checking it out and updating it above within a week or three, at which point I'll delete it from the comments page.

If you want credit, include your name and email (otherwise it's anonymous). You can use HTML but you don't have to.

[Up: science] [Site map]

[Robot Wisdom home page]

Hosting provided by instinct.org. Content may be copied under Open Web Content License.