Amarna letter EA 299, titled: "A Plea for Help",^[1] is a fairly short clay tablet Amarna letter from "governor" Yapahu of city-state Gazru. The clay tablet surface has been partially eroded, but the cuneiform is still mostly legible.

The tablet is medium in color (lt tan—medium lt chocolate: (see here: )) and is about 12 cm tall, and a wide tablet, about 8.5 cm. The tablet is located in the British Museum, no. 29832.

The Amarna letters, about 300, numbered up to EA 382, are a mid 14th century BC, around 1360 BC and 30–35 years later, correspondence. The initial corpus of letters were found at Akhenaten's city Akhetaten, in the floor of the Bureau of Correspondence of Pharaoh; others were later found, adding to the body of letters.

Paragraph I

(Line 1)—A-na^[3] diš-lugal-EN-ia dingir-meš-ia–( To ^Diš-King-Lord-mine, (of) ^dGod(S)-mine.. )

(2)—^{d}-meš-ia ^{d}-utu ša iš-tu–.–.–.–.–.–.–( ^dGod{S}-mine, ^dSun-God, .. Which .. From .. )

(3)—an-{ša10-me} um-ma diš-Ya-Pa-iYa–.–(..^{d}-Sky; --///-- Message ¹-Yapahu ! ..)

(4)—LÚ ša ^iri-GaZ-Ri-^ki–.–.–.–.–.–( Man(Governor), .. "Which-(of)" ^iri-GaZRu-^ki !! ) ( ^Town-GaZRu-^ki )

(5)—ARAD2-ka ep-ri ša giri3-meš-ka–(.. Servant-yours, .. "The Dirt" Which-(at) Feet(S)-yours .. )

(6)—LÚ-ku8-sí anše-KUR-ra-meš

(7)—a-na 2(diš) giri3-meš Lugal-EN-ia

(8)—dingir-meš-ia {d}-utu-ia {d}-utu

(9)—ša iš-tu an-{ša10-me} 7(diš)-šu

(10)—u 7(diš)-ta-a-an lu-ú am-qut-ma

(11)—ka-bat-tum u s,e-ru-ma

Paragraph II

(12)—iš-te-me a-wa-ti7-meš

(13)—LÚ-dumu-ší-ip-ri ša Lugal

(14)—EN-ia ma-gal ma-gal

(15)—u li-im-li-ik Lugal-EN-ia

(16)—{d}-utu ša iš-tu an-{ša10-me}

(17)—a-na kur-^{ki}-šu a-nu-ma

(18)—da-an-nu LÚ-SA-GAZ-meš

Cuneiform score (per CDLI, Chicago Digital Library Initiative),^[5] and Akkadian, and English.

The mention of the Habiru shows the conflict of the time, as the takeover of city-states or regions by the Habiru. The map shows various cities and regions, and their respective dealings with the Habiru. (There are only 3 letters from Labaya of Šakmu/Shechem.) The next closest mention of the Habiru is from the Jerusalem letters of Abdi-Heba, directly south at Jerusalem, letters EA 286, 287, 288, 289, and EA 290.

• Amarna letters–phrases and quotations
• List of Amarna letters by size