Amarna letters of the king, my lord.""-('before', then line 8, line 11). Both sentences are identical, and repetitive, with only the subject statement changing. The entire corpus of Amarna letters has many standard phrases. It also has some phrases, and quotations used only once. Some are parables: (EA 252: ""...when an ant is pinched (struck), does it not fight back and bite the hand of the man that struck it?""...) Amarna letter EA 15, from Ashur-uballit I; see also Amarna letter EA 153. Amarna letters The Amarna letters (; sometimes referred to as the Amarna correspondence or Amarna tablets, and cited with
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