Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Shlomo Izre’el -- Preface / Shlomo Izre’el -- Abbreviations / Shlomo Izre’el -- Introduction / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 340 — A historical tale or a letter fragment / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 341 — The story of Kešši / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 342 — An exercise in letter writing? / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 343 — An exercise / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 344 — An exercise / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 345 — An exercise / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 346 — An exercise / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 347 — A lexical list? / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 348 — A fragment of an S a signlist / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 349 — A fragment of a syllabary? / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 350 — A fragment of a tu-ta-ti exercise (obverse) and Silbenalphabet A (reverse) / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 351 — A fragment of diri , tablet 2 (possible join with EA 352+353, EA 354 and EA 373) / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 352+353 — A fragment of diri , tablet 2 (possible join with EA 351, EA 354 and EA 373) / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 354 — A fragment of diri , tablet 2 (possible join with EA 351, EA 352+353 and EA 373) / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 355 — A clay cylinder / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 356 — The myth of Adapa and the South Wind / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 357 – The myth of Nergal and Ereškigal / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 358 – A narrative of still undetermined genre / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 359 – The šar tamḫāri epic / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 360 — A fragment of undetermined genre / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 368 — Egyptian-Akkadian vocabulary / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 372 — A fragment of a literary text / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 373 — A fragment of diri , tablet 2 (possible join with EA 351, EA 352+353 and EA 354) / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 374 — A list of divine names / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 375 — A fragment of the šar tamḫāri epic / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 376 — A fragment of a literary text / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 377 — An exercise / Shlomo Izre’el -- EA 379 — A fragment of an S a signlist / Shlomo Izre’el -- Back Matter -- Appendix / Shlomo Izre’el -- Bibliography / Shlomo Izre’el -- Plates / Shlomo Izre’el.

The Armana archives include not only letters but also texts relating to the education of scribes in Egypt: syllabaries, lexical lists, literary texts and other educational exercises. Although the recent translation of the letters by William Moran (The Amarna Letters, Johns Hopkins, 1992) has brought our understanding of this important corpus up-to-date, the other texts have not been included in his volume. They have been waiting for renewed study in the context of literary and scholarly peripheral and core Akkadian texts. The original publications are obsolete and many of the texts are poorly copied. This book provides new editions of all the Amarna tablets not included in Moran's volume, i.e. EA 340-361; 368; 372-377; 379-381. Some of these are fragments whose genre is a matter of debate: suggestions for their attribution will be offered. This new edition includes transliterations, translations, a brief commentary, cuneiform copies, and photographs. The introduction provides an overview of the corpus and is intended to serve as an impetus for further research into some of the more difficult issues yet to be examined.

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