«Let the Gods Know It!»: EA 43 and Political History of Amarna Age

Nemirovsky Alexandr A.

he article explores one of Amarna letters, EA 43, where a Hittite king informs his Egyptian counterpartner about some dynastic tumult which involved a murder of uncertain person, some «son» resembling his father from the Hittite and, presumably, Egyptian point of view, and the aid of Hittite King to one of the struggling factions.