naharina

Updated: April 4, 2025

This was the kingdom of Aram Naharaim, called Naharina in the Egyptian texts, Mitanni by its own inhabitants. The language of Mitanni was of a very peculiar type, as we learn from the tablets of Tel el-Amarna, one or two of which are written in it.

A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce - Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations