Definition of Amarna

1. pertaining to a certain historical period of ancient Egypt [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Amarna

amaranthine
amaranths
amaranthum
amarantite
amarants
amarelle
amarelles
amaretti
amaretto
amaretto sour
amarettos
amarillite
amarine
amaritude
amaritudes
amarna (current term)
amaro
amaroid
amaroidal
amarone
amarones
amarum
amaryllidaceous
amaryllideous
amaryllis
amaryllis family
amaryllises
amas
amasake
amasi

Literary usage of Amarna

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1917)
"The Murch fragment of an el- amarna letter. (American Journal of Semitic ... *OAC —- The Teil el amarna period. The relations of Egypt and western Asia in ..."

2. A History of Babylonia and Assyria by Robert William Rogers (1915)
"To this view also Steindorff is inclined, for he writes "Tell-el-'amarna (or ... But there is a Tel el-amarna and a Der el-amarna, some miles to the south ..."

3. Assyria and Babylonia: A List of References in the New York Public Library by Ida Augusta Pratt, Richard James Horatio Gottheil, New York Public Library (1918)
"The Murch fragment of an el- amarna letter. (American journal of Semitic ... *OAC The Tell el amarna period. The relations of Egypt and western Asia in the ..."

4. The Oldest Civilization of Greece: Studies of the Mycenaean Age by Harry Reginald Hall (1901)
"70 and 71), drawn by Mr. Anderson, are appended, was found at Tell el-amarna with the great collection of cuneiform letters, despatches, &c., ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"... of the amarna Tablets; Zanoah, the modern Zanu'a; Adullam, identified by ... recently excavated, mentioned in the amarna Tablets as an important ..."

6. The Monuments of Upper Egypt by Auguste Mariette (1877)
"Tel-amarna, and Haggi-Kandil would then be chosen as a landing-place. The grottoes of Tel- -amarna belong to the XVIIIth dynasty, and to that still obscure ..."

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