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

Amarna letter: Royal Letter from Abi-milku of Tyre to the king of Egypt

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Description

Clay (unfired)

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 tablet with cuneiform inscriptions.

The artifact is a rectangular clay tablet featuring densely packed cuneiform script across its surface. The tablet displays signs typical of Mesopotamian writing, with wedge-shaped impressions. The color is a light brown, indicative of unfired or lightly fired clay. The signs seem well-preserved, allowing for partial readability.

unclear unknown good
Materials clay

Connections

Materials Clay

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116247533 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 24.2.12 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544696 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
  • 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.
  • 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.