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-(XXVII paragraphs), EA 26 is topical and synoptic about recent events about the desire for 'gold statues' (VII paragraphs). 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 here, 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. (Not a linear, line-by-line translation.) Akkadian text. Text: Akkadian language, sumerograms, Egyptianisms, etc. Akkadian: Obverse: Paragraph I  (see here ) (Double-line ruling) Obverse: Paragraph II (Double-line ruling) Obverse: Paragraph III "Beginning of Line 21: 1. ": Start of Fracture corner. "Lines 23, 24, and 25, all begin with "And (But)" " (Ù) Note: "The last line of Para III, uses cuneiform: La, for "not" ("no"), 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." (The fractured piece has only the first two cuneiform characters, ta & pa, for Akkadian "parāsu", meaning: "to separate, cut, decide"., and using  English "interrupt". The rest of the verb is on the main letter piece, (See here: ; or Here: ).