Letter summary Amarna letters
map of ancient near east during amarna period, showing great powers of period: egypt (green), mycenaean greece (orange), hatti (yellow), kassite kingdom of babylon (purple), assyria (grey), , mitanni (red). lighter areas show direct control, darker areas represent spheres of influence.
amarna letters politically arranged in rough counterclockwise fashion:
001–014 babylonia
015–016 assyria
017–030 mitanni
031–032 arzawa
033–040 alashiya
041–044 hatti
045–380+ syria/lebanon/canaan
amarna letters syria/lebanon/canaan distributed roughly:
045–067 syria
068–227 lebanon (where 68–140 gubla aka byblos)
227–380 canaan (written in canaano-akkadian language).
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