Amarna letters language of work or name Akkadian
001–014 Babylonia
015–016 Assyria
017–030 Mitanni
031–032 Arzawa
033–040 Alashiya
041–044 Hatti
045–380+ Syria/Lebanon/CanaanAmarna Letters from Syria/Lebanon/Canaan are distributed roughly:045–067 Syria
068–227 Lebanon (where 68–140 are from Gubla aka Byblos)
227–380 Canaan (written mostly in the Canaano-Akkadian language).Akhenaten and Tushratta
Early in his reign, Akhenaten, the pharaoh of Egypt, had conflicts with Tushratta, the king of Mitanni, who had courted favor with his father, Amenhotep III, against the Hittites. Tushratta complains in numerous letters that Akhenaten had sent him gold-plated statues rather than statues made of solid gold; the statues formed part of the bride-price that Tushratta received for letting his daughter Tadukhepa marry Amenhotep III and then later marry Akhenaten.An Amarna letter preserves a complaint by Tushratta to Akhenaten about the situation:
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