Amarna letter EA 367
Amarna letter EA 367, titled From the Pharaoh to a Vassal, is a medium-small, square clay tablet Amarna letter to Endaruta of Achshaph,, one of only about 10 letters of the el-Amarna corpus, that is from the Pharaoh of Egypt to his correspondent.
The letter is distinctive in that, 1- there are basically no spaces between the Akkadian language cuneiform signs,, on the letter, and, 2- only a few segue-spaces. And, some text extends to the right into the right side of the clay tablet's pillow shaped thickness, and further into the reverse side, which would appear upside down in the text of the reverse.
EA 367 is about 3 in wide x 3.5 in tall, and is made of a dark clay. One trait of the letter is that the scribe uses some signs that have multiple alphabetic uses, also ṭup, and gáb, for the Akkadian language, "gabbu", all, and where gáb is the same sign for káb, in the spelling of some specific verbs.
Letter EA 367 is one of the Amarna letters, about 300, numbered up to EA 382, mid 14th century BC, about 1350 BC and 25? 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.
Text of EA 367
The following English language text, and Akkadian is from Rainey, 1970, El Amarna Tablets, 359-379:English:
Akkadian: