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Amarna letter EA 362

Amarna letter EA 362

clay tablet · clay · 1,400 BCE

Amarna letter EA 362, titled: "A Commissioner Murdered," is a finely-inscribed clay tablet letter from Rib-Haddi, the mayor/'man' of the city of Byblos,. Byblos, being a large coastal seaport Mediterranean city, was a city that was aligned with Egypt (Miṣri), and housed an Egyptian community. Rib-Haddi, as the city-state leader wrote the largest number of letters to the Pharaoh, in a sub-corpus of the 1350 BC Amarna letters.

material
clay
held at
Louvre Museum · art museum
inv. no.
AO 7093

The journey

found at
Amarna
now in
Louvre Museum
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