The Amarna Letters: The Syro-Levantine Correspondence

REVIEW BY MICHAEL TUNNICLIFFE This important work claims to be the first authoritative edition to combine both transliteration and translation of the Amarna Letters since their publication by Norwegian linguist J A Knudtzon in 1915. The 1992 volume by W L Moran (an American Assyriologist) included a translation only and no transliteration. The current work is linked to a ‘digital first’ project to make these texts available more widely. The letters come from the period 1358-1325 BC and were discovered in the 1880s at Amarna, the site of Akhenaten’s capital Akhetaten. The brief introduction to the book gives an account of the murky discovery of the tablets and their acquisition b