Amarna letter EA 2

Amarna Letter EA2 is the letter of the Amarna series of inscriptions designated EA2, which is inscribed with cuneiform writing showing the continuation of a correspondence between Kadašman-Enlil I and Amenḥotep III, from EA1.

The letter is part of a series of correspondences from Babylonia to Egypt, which run from EA2 to EA4 and EA6 to EA14.

[1][2] The composition of the matter of the tablet onto which the letter is inscribed is clay taken from the Euphrates.

For you, for your wives, for your sons, for your magnates, your horses, your chariots, and your entire country, may all go very well.With regards to my brother's writing me about marriage, saying, I desire your daughter, why should you not marry her?

No king has ever given his daughters to anyone not of royal blood.Your daughters are available, why have you not given me one?...fine horses...20 wooden...of gold...120 shekels...I send to you as your greeting gift.60 shekels of lapis-lazuli I send as the greeting gift of your sister,...my wife