Amarna letters–localities and their rulers

Amarna letters–localities and their rulers

This is a list of the " "Amarna letters" "–Text corpus, categorized by: Amarna letters-localities and their rulers. It includes countries, regions, and the cities/or " 'city-states' ". The regions are included in Canaan and the Levant.

EA: " 'el Amarna' "–(Akhenaten's capitol of Akhetaten}.

The Amarna letters text corpus contains 382 numbered letters; there are "sub-Text corpora" in the letters, most notably the 68–letter "corpus" of Rib-Hadda of Gubla–(Byblos).

Localities / Rulers

ee also

*Amarna letters
*Text corpus

References

*Moran, William L. "The Amarna Letters." John Hopkins University Press, 1987, 1992. (softcover, ISBN 0-8018-6715-0)


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