Amarna letter EA 286

Amarna letter EA 286, titled: "A Throne Granted, Not Inherited,"^[1] is a tall, finely-inscribed clay tablet letter, approximately 8 in tall, and 3.5 in wide, 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 286 is a moderately long, and involved letter.

Unlike similarly-lengthed letters by the Jerusalem scribe, (EA 287, EA 288, and shorter EA 289), EA 286 is damaged over the entire surface by erosion, probably from moisture. Other small sections of the clay tablet letter are missing entirely, with text supplied by the story's context.

The Amarna letters, about 300, numbered up to EA 382, are a mid-14th-century BC [text corpus|correspondence]] from about 1350 BC and 20–25 years later. 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 286 (see here-(Obverse & Reverse): [1]), is numbered VAT 1642, from the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin.