| Amarna letter EA 365 (Titled Furnishing Corvée Workers) | |
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 Reverse, Upper & Lower views | |
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| Material | Clay |
| Size | Height: 6.5 cm (2.6 in) Width: 6.0 cm (2.4 in) |
| Writing | cuneiform (Akkadian language) |
| Created | ~1360-1335 BC (Amarna Period) |
| Period/culture | Middle Babylonian |
| Place | Akhetaten & Megiddo |
| Present location | Louvre (Antiquités orientales AO 7098) |
Amarna letter EA 365, titled Furnishing Corvée Workers,[1] is a squarish, mostly flat clay tablet, but thick enough (pillow-shaped), to contain text that continues toward the right margin, the right side of the obverse side, and also to the right side of the reverse side of the tablet.
The text is continuous, such that a final line (line 31) is needed, and is written on a final available edge of the tablet – thus text is found upon 5 sections — Obverse, Bottom Edge, Reverse, Top Edge, and Side.
Letter EA 365 is authored by Biridiya of Megiddo and is written to the Pharaoh of Egypt (in the 14th century BC, Egypt referred to as Mizri/Miṣri). The letter's subject is the harvesting of crops by corvée (forced) labor men/women.
The Amarna letters, about 300, numbered up to EA 382, are mid 14th century BC, about 1360 BC and 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.
- ^ Moran, William L. 1987, 1992. The Amarna Letters. EA 252, Furnishing Corvée Workers, p. 363.