Amarna letter EA 369

The tablet is now housed in the Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, in Brussels.

[1] The letter details the king sending female cupbearers, silver, linen garments, carnelian, precious stones, an ebony chair, with a total value of 160 deben.

[1][2] It also states that he is sending forty female cupbearers, which are recorded as 40 silver each.

He herewith dispatches to you this tablet, saying to you, He herewith sends to you Hanya, the stable of the archers, along with everything for the acquisition of beautiful female cupbearers: 9—14 silver, gold, linen garments : ma-al-ba-si, carnelian, all sorts of (precious) stones, an ebony chair; all alike, fine things.

15—23 Send extremely beautiful female cupbearers in whom there is no defect, so the king, your lord, will say to you, “This is excellent, in accordance with the order he sent to you.”