Amarna letter EA 26


Amarna letter EA 26, titled: "To the Queen Mother: Some Missing Gold Statues" is a shorter-length clay tablet Amarna letter from Tushratta of Mittani. Unlike the next letter EA 27 from Tushratta, which is more than twice as tall, and about twice as wide-, EA 26 is topical and synoptic about recent events about the desire for 'gold statues'. The letter is addressed to the Pharaoh's wife, Teye, and its dimensions are approximately: tall, wide, and thick.
EA 26 has missing edges, left and right. The piece pictured is the Oriental Institute of Chicago's piece which is part of the obverse, lower-left corner, at the beginning of lines of text. The entire obverse of EA 26 can be seen , with its missing edges and scuffed/eroded surfaces on the edges. The Oriental Institute piece shows the high quality of inscribed cuneiform, as visible in undamaged sections of EA 26.

The letter

EA 26: ''"To the Queen Mother: Some Missing Gold Statues"''

EA 26, letter ten of thirteen from Tushratta.

Akkadian text

Text: Akkadian language, sumerograms, Egyptianisms, etc.
Akkadian:
Obverse:
Paragraph I
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Obverse: Paragraph II
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Obverse: Paragraph III
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Beginning of Line 21: 1. : Start of Fracture corner. Lines 23, 24, and 25, all begin with "And "
Note: The last line of Para III, uses cuneiform: La, for "not", Akkadian "lā", but of course, it is obvious, that the verb is spread across the entire last line, 29, as an embellishment, and an "exclamation", to the topic of Paragraph III..