Amarna letter EA 365


Amarna letter EA 365, titled: Furnishing Corvée Workers, is a squarish, mostly flat clay tablet, but thick enough, 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 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. The letter's subject is the harvesting of crops by corvée 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.
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Text of EA 365, reverse

Reverse, top half

The following English language text, and Akkadian is from Rainey, 1970, El Amarna Tablets, 359-379:
Reverse, top half, Akkadian:

Reverse, bottom half, and Moran translation (''lines 15-31'')

Moran's non-linear letter English language translation :

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Specific EA 365 translations

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