English Dictionary: Tablets | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tel-el-Amarna \Tel`-el-A*mar"na\, n. [Ar., hill of Amarna.] A station on the Nile, midway between Thebes and Memphis, forming the site of the capital of Amenophis IV., whose archive chamber was discovered there in 1887. A collection of tablets (called the {Tel-el-Amarna, [or] the Amarna, {tablets}) was found here, forming the Asiatic correspondence ( {Tel-el-Amarna letters}) of Amenophis IV. and his father, Amenophis III., written in cuneiform characters. It is an important source of our knowledge of Asia from about 1400 to 1370 b. c.. |