Amarna letter EA 287

EA 288, from Abdi-Heba, letter 4 of 6 from Jerusalem.
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Amarna letter EA 287, titled: "A Very Serious Crime,"[1] is a tall, finely-inscribed clay tablet letter, approximately 8 in tall, from Abdi-Heba the mayor/ruler of Jerusalem, of the mid 14th century BC Amarna letters. The scribe of his six letters to Egypt were penned by the "Jerusalem scribe"; EA 287 is a moderately long, and involved letter. 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 287 (see here-(Reverse): [1]), is numbered VAT 1644, from the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin.

  1. ^ Moran, William L. 1987, 1992. The Amarna Letters. EA 287, A Very Serious Crime, p. 327–330.