Amarna letter EA 323
Amarna letter EA 323, titled: A Royal Order for Glass, is a smaller, square, mostly flat clay tablet letter written on both sides, but only half of the reverse; it is also written on the bottom, and is a letter from 'governor' Yidya, and is a short letter like many of his other Amarna letters, numbered EA 320 to EA 326.
EA 323 is so short that it can be described as: a prostration formula to the Pharaoh, a statement of him guarding his city-state of Ashkelon-, and the subject of delivering glass to the King of Egypt.
The clay tablet letter is located at the British Museum, no. BM 29836.
The Amarna letters, about 300, numbered up to EA 382, are a mid 14th century BC, about 1350 BC and 20–25 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.The letter
EA 323: ''"A Royal Order for Glass"''
EA 323, letter four of seven.
Obverse:
Bottom & Reverse:Akkadian text
The Akkadian language text:
Obverse:
