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Amarna letter EA 10
Obverse of EA 10
Material	Clay
Created	c. 1350 BC

Amarna Letter EA10 (see here: ) is the letter of the Amarna series of diplomatic correspondence designated EA 10, which is written in cuneiform writing showing the continuation of a correspondence between Burna-Buriash II (otherwise known as Burra-Buriyaš) an ancient king of Babylon (named Karduniaš in the 1350 BC Amarna time period), and Akhenaten (also known as Amenophis IV), an ancient pharaoh of Egypt.

Some part of the contents of the letter indicates (in addition to EA11) that the Egyptian pharaoh married his daughters (named Meritaten and Ankhesenpaaten) at a time when they were about 11 or 12 years of age.

Within the letter Burna-Buriash II praises the craftsmen of the land of Akhenaten, and requests a model of an animal, either land or aquatic, and he is apparently indifferent to which of the two the pharaoh should choose to have created.

The letter is part of a series of correspondences from Babylonia to Egypt, which run from EA2 to EA4 and EA6 to EA14. EA1 and EA5 are from Egypt to Babylonia.

The letter

EA 10: "Egyptian Gold and Carpenters"

EA 10, letter number five of six, from Karduniash (Babylon), by King Burna-Buriash II. (Not a linear, line-by-line translation.)

Obverse (see here: )

(Lines 1-7)–o Naphu]rara, the king of hus Burra-Buriyas, the king of Karad . For me all goes wel. For you, for your household, for your wives, fo, for your magnates, for your troops, for your chariots, for your horses, and for your country, may all go very well.

(8-24)–From the time of Karaindaš, since the messengers of your ancestors came regularly to my ancestors, up to the present, they (the ancestors) have been friends. Now, though you and I are friends, 3 times have your messengers come to me and you have not sent me a single beautiful greeting-gift, nor have I for my part sent you a beautiful greeting-gift. (I am one for whom nothing is scarce, and you are one for whom nothing is scarce.) As for your messenger whom you sent to me, the 20 minas of gold that were brought here were not all there. When they put it into the kiln, not 5 minas of gold appeared. at did appear, on cooling off looked like ashes. Was er identifi (as gold)? friends with e ...