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Object Type
Museum number: E29832
Title: Series: The Amarna Letters
Description: Clay tablet inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform; letter from the ruler Yapahu of Gezer to the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III or Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten), including a request for help against marauders named as Hapiru (the Biblical Hebrews), a group known in the Near East since the early 2nd millennium BC as raiders, mercenaries and labourers, and later as simply dispossessed and homeless people; 4+4 columns?; 26 lines; complete.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 14thC BC
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amarna, el-
Materials
Dimensions: Length: 4.25 inches; Width: 3.375 inches
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Knudtzon, J A 1915a / Die El-Amarna Tafeln (299); Bezold 1892a / The El-Amarna Tablets in the British Museum (49); Barnett 1977a / Illustrations of Old Testament History (page 14 no. 2); Leichty E et al 1988a / Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, volume VIII: Tablets from Sippar 3 (p.175); Sigrist M et al 2006a / Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, III
Location: On display (G57/dc8)
Condition: Good / fair; complete.
Associated names: Named in inscription: Yapahu; Named in inscription: Amenhotep III (?); Named in inscription: Amenhotep IV (?)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1888
Acquisition notes: Purchased by Budge in Egypt.
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: E29832
Registration number: 1888,1013.45
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: EA 299 (Amarna number)
Conservation

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