Amarna letter EA 26

Amarna letter EA 26, titled To the Queen Mother: Some Missing Gold Statues,[1] is a shorter-length clay tablet Amarna letter from Tushratta of Mittani.

[2] 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).

Chauncey Murch at Luxor which is part of the obverse, lower-left corner, at the beginning of lines of text.

The Oriental Institute piece shows the high quality of inscribed cuneiform, as visible in undamaged sections of EA 26.

(The fractured piece has only the first two cuneiform characters, ta & pa, for Akkadian parāsu, meaning: "to separate, cut, decide".,[6] and using English "interrupt".