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<p>In the 1350 BC <a href="page.php?w=Text_corpus">correspondence</a> of 382 letters, called the <a href="page.php?w=Amarna_letters">Amarna letters</a>, the <b>prostration formula</b> is usually the opening subservient remarks to the addressee, the <a href="page.php?w=Ancient_Egypt">Egyptian</a> <a href="page.php?w=pharaoh">pharaoh</a>. The formula is based on <a href="page.php?w=prostration">prostration</a>, namely reverence and submissiveness. Often the letters are from <a href="page.php?w=vassal">vassal</a> rulers or vassal <a href="page.php?w=city-state">city-state</a>s,</p><p>
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