Position in chronology
Cuneiform letter to Amenhotep III
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The world it comes from
The Kassite kings, international diplomacy.
Scholarly note
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (Copyrighted free use). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Cuneiform tablet containing a letter from Tushratta of Mitanni to Amenhotep III-(of 13 letters of King Tushratta). (Tushratta letter en:Amarna letter EA 19 , reverse )
Attribution
Image: Jon Bodsworth — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Cuneiform letter to Amenhotep III.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACuneiform_letter_to_Amenhotep_III.jpg. Description: Cuneiform tablet containing a letter from Tushratta of Mitanni to Amenhotep III-(of 13 letters of King Tushratta). (Tushratta letter en:Amarna letter EA 19 , reverse ).
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