Amarna letter EA 254

Amarna letter EA 254, titled: "Neither Rebel nor Delinquent (2)",[1] is a moderate length, tall, and mostly flat rectangular clay tablet Amarna letter, (see here [1]). The letter is from Labaya of city-state Šakmu (Shechem today). It is an undamaged letter, in pristine condition, with cuneiform script on almost all surfaces: Obverse, Bottom, Reverse, and Left Side. Letter EA 254 is numbered VAT 335, from the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin.

The Amarna letters, about 300, numbered up to EA 382, are a mid 14th century BC, about 1360 BC and 30-35 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.

  1. ^ Moran, William L. 1987, 1992. The Amarna Letters. EA 254, "Neither Rebel nor Delinquent (2)", pp. 307-308.