Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other

Amarna letter: Royal Letter from Ashur-uballit, the king of Assyria, to the king of Egypt

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Clay

AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06

Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A clay cuneiform tablet with several lines of inscriptions.

The artifact is a rectangular clay tablet featuring rows of cuneiform script, which was used in ancient Mesopotamia. The inscriptions appear densely packed and are expertly crafted, indicative of administrative or recording purposes. The surface shows wear typical of ancient artifacts but remains largely intact.

unclear unknown good
Materials clay

Connections

Materials Clay

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116247535 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 24.2.11 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544695 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
  • Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.