1600 – 1155 BCE
Middle Babylonian
The Kassite kings, international diplomacy.
Foreign Kassite dynasties rule Babylon for four centuries — a remarkably stable period. The Amarna letters, written in Akkadian on clay, document an international system stretching from Egypt to the Hittites: humanity's first known diplomatic correspondence.
Primary sources
Tablets from this period
6142 tablets dated to Middle Babylonian — showing 24 below; browse all 6142.
Amarna Letter EA 153 — Abi-milku of Tyre
Part of the earliest known body of international diplomatic correspondence. Akkadian, written in cuneiform on clay, was the lingua franca of Late Bronze Age statecraft — used between Egypt, the Hittites, Mitanni, Babylon, Assyria, and the Levantine vassals.
Daily LifeLaw
AASOR 16, 015
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 015. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 016
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 016. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 017
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 017. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 018
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 018. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 019
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 019. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 020
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 020. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 021
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 021. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 022
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 022. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 024
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 024. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 025
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 025. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 026
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 026. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 027
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 027. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 028
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 028. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 029
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 029. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 031 + EN 10/3, 207
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 031 + EN 10/3, 207. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 032
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 032. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 034
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 034. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 035
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 035. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 036 + frag.
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 036 + frag.. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 037
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 037. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 038
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 038. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 039
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 039. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature
AASOR 16, 040
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — AASOR 16, 040. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Writing & Literature