Amarna letter EA 5

Amarna Letter EA5, one of the Amarna letters (cited with the abbreviation EA, for "El Amarna"), is a correspondence between Kadašman-Enlil I and Amenhotep III.

The letter exists as two artifacts, one at the British Museum (BM29787) and one in the Cairo Museum (C12195).

The letter is part of a series of correspondences from Babylonia to Egypt, which run from EA2 to EA4 and EA6 to EA14. EA1 and EA5 are from Egypt to Babylonia.

EA 5: Gifts of Egyptian Furniture for the Babylonian Palace
EA 5, letter five of five, Pharaoh to Kadashman-Enlil. (Not a linear, line-by-line translation.)

Obverse: (see here )


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"(Lines 1-12)--[Thus Nibmuar]ey[a1 Great King, the king of Egypt. Say to] Kadašman-Enlil, the king of Karadunniyaš,2 my brother: For m]e all goes (well). For you may all go well. For you]r [household, your] wives, [your sons, yo]ur [magnates], yo[ur] troops, [yo]ur [horses], your [chariots], and i[n your countries, may all go] well. [For me al]l goes well. For my household, [my] wives, [my sons], my magnates, my ma[ny] troops, my [horses], my chariots, and in [m]y [countries] all goes very, very well."


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"(Lines 13-33)--I have [just]3 heard that you have built some n[ew] quarters.4 I am sending herewith some furnishings for your house. Indeed I shall be preparing everything possible5 before the arrival of your messenger who is bringing your daughter. When6 your messenger returns, I will send (them) to [yo]u. I herewith send you, in the charge of Šutti, a greeting-gift of things for the new house: 1 bed7 of ebony, overlaid with ivory and gold; 3 beds of ebony, overlaid with gold; 1 uruššu of ebony, overlaid with gold; 1 lar[ge] chair [o]f ebo[ny], overlaid with gold.8 These things, the weight of all the gold: 7 minas, 9 shekels, of silver9 (In addition), 10 footrests of ebony; [ . . . ] of ebony, overlaid with gold; [ . . . ] footrests of ivory, overlaid with gold; [ . . . ] . . . of gold. [Total10 x] minas, 10 and 7 shekels, of gold.--(complete, lacunas throughout, lines 1-33)"