Amarna letter EA 223

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Amarna letter EA 223, titled: "Compliance With Orders",^[1] is a very short clay tablet letter from Endaruta of city-state Akšapa (Achshaph). It is the only letter authored by Endaruta. One of the ten Pharaoh letters written to persons/ or states in the Amarna letters corpus, is Amarna letter EA 367 (titled: From the Pharaoh to a Vassal).

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.

Letter EA 223 is numbered VAT 1870, from the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin.