Amarna letter EA 299
Amarna letter EA 299, titled: "A Plea for Help", is a fairly short clay tablet Amarna letter from "governor" Yapahu of city-state Gazru. The clay tablet surface has been partially eroded, but the cuneiform is still mostly legible.
The tablet is medium in color and is about 12 cm tall, and a wide tablet, about 8.5 cm. The tablet is located in the British Museum, no. 29832.
The Amarna letters, about 300, numbered up to EA 382, are a mid 14th century BC, around 1360 BC and 30–35 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.
The letter
EA 299: ''"A Plea for Help"''
EA 299, letter number three of four from Yapahu of Gazru.Obverse
''Bottom Edge & Reverse''
Cuneiform score, Akkadian">Akkadian language">Akkadian, English">English language">English
Cuneiform score, and Akkadian, and English.----
Obverse
Paragraph I,
1.A-na 1=dišlugal _EN_-ia _DINGIR-MEŠ_-ia
___Ana 1=dišŠÀR-ru Bēlu-ia, - _DINGIR-MEŠ_-ia
___To 1=King Lord-mine, - Godspl.-mine
2. _[an (cuneiform)|]UTU_-ia _[an (cuneiform)|]UTU_ ša iš#-tu
___[an (cuneiform)|]dingir-ia, —
___[an (cuneiform)|]God-mine, —
2.4.------------ _[an (cuneiform)|]UTU_ ša iš#-tu
___---------------[an (cuneiform)|]Dingir, - ša iš#tu
___---------------God, - which from
3.an- um-ma diš-Ya-Pa-iYa
___dingir-
___-Sky
3.4.-------------um-ma 1=dišYa-Pa-'i3
___-------------umma 1=dišYa-Pa-'i3
___---------------message 1Yapahu
4.LÚ ša iri-GaZ-Ri-ki