Amarna letter EA 205

Amarna letter EA 205, titled: "Ready for Marching Orders (5)"^[1] is a short letter from the Ruler of city Ṭubu. The title references that six mostly identical, very short, letters were scribed by the same scribe, from small regional towns; the scribe also is the writer of Amarna letter EA 195. It is not known if each letter was written at the location of each town, or from an alternative site, or sites.

The six towns are:

Ṣiribašani, Message of Artamanya

town 2, Message of Amawaše

Šashimi, Message of Abdi-Milki

Qanu, Message of the Ruler

Ṭubu, Message of the Ruler

Naziba, Message of the Ruler

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.