Amarna letter: Royal Letter from Ashur-uballit, the king of Assyria, to the king of Egypt
Description
Tablet, Amarna letter. New Kingdom, Amarna Period, Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1353–1336 B.C. Clay. H. 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.); W. 5.5 cm (2 3/16 in.). Probably from: Amarna (Akhetaten), Middle Egypt. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1924.
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A roughly rectangular, broken tablet of baked clay covered with dense wedge-shaped cuneiform script lines.
The object appears to be a small clay tablet with irregular edges and a curved/uneven surface. The front is filled with tightly packed, horizontal bands of incised wedge-shaped marks consistent with cuneiform writing rather than Egyptian hieroglyphs. No legible royal names, deity names, or cartouches are clearly readable at this resolution; the script is visible throughout the face and wraps only minimally around the edges. There is no separate iconographic scene; the tablet is primarily text-bearing.
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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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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