Amarna letters — The Amarna letters (sometimes Amarna correspondence or Amarna tablets ) are an archive of correspondence on clay tablets, mostly diplomatic, between the Egyptian administration and its representatives in Canaan and Amurru during the New Kingdom.… … Wikipedia
Amarna letters–phrases and quotations — is an article for the 1350 BC Amarna letters, the correspondence to the pharaohs of Egypt.Of the 382 Amarna letters, many are direct in describing the conditions of the author in their local regions. Many authors/letters are requesting aid of the … Wikipedia
Amarna — The site of Amarna (commonly known as el Amarna or incorrectly as Tel el Amarna; see below) (Arabic: العمارنة al ‘amārnah ) is located on the east bank of the Nile River in the modern Egyptian province of Minya, some 58 km (38 miles) south of the … Wikipedia
Amarna tablets — Tel el Amarna Tel el A*mar na, n. [Ar., hill of Amarna.] A station on the Nile in Egypt, midway between Thebes and Memphis, forming the site of the ancient city of Akhetaton, capital of Amenophis IV. (Akhenaton, or Amenhotep IV., of the 18th… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Amarna — /euh mahr neuh/, adj. (sometimes l.c.) of or pertaining to the period in ancient Egyptian history described on cuneiform tablets (Amarna tablets) that were found in 1887 at Tell el Amarna and contain the correspondence (Amarna letters) from… … Universalium
amarna — əˈmärnə adjective Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: from Tell el Amarna, ancient station on the Nile river bet. Thebes and Memphis, Egypt : of or belonging to the period of time about 1375 1360 B.C. that is described on the ancient Egyptian… … Useful english dictionary
Amarna Letters — A large number of clay tablets inscribed in cuneiform, the script used in Mesopotamia and western Asia, found at the site of el Amarna. The letters consist of the diplomatic correspondence of the royal court at the end of Dynasty 18 with the… … Ancient Egypt
Amarna Tell el- — Place on the eastern bank of the Nile near the village of Haggi Qandil, south of Cairo. For a time it was the capital of Egypt, and in 1887 a cache of inscribed tablets was discovered which proved to be correspondence between Ikhnaton, the… … Dictionary of the Bible
EL-AMARNA — EL AMARNA, modern name of the site of Akhetaton, the capital city of Egypt, founded by Amenophis Amenḥotep IV (akhenaton ), the heretical pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty (14th cent. B.C.E.). On this site was discovered the El Amar na archive. El… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Tombs of the Nobles (Amarna) — Located in Middle Egypt, the Tombs of the Nobles at Amarna are the burial places of some of the powerful courtiers and persons of the city of Akhetaten. The tombs are in 2 groups, cut into the cliffs and bluffs in the east of the dry bay of… … Wikipedia
