PLATE NO. 27 Relief from Tell-el-Amarna in Berlin Museum, depicting Amenophis IV and his family. Illustration from Alfred Jeremias, Das Alte Testament im Lichte des Alten Orients, Leipzig, 1906, p, 308. PLATE NO. 28 Clay tablet, measuring 834 by 4% inches, from Tell-el-Amarna, containing a letter from Tushratta, king of Mitanni, to Amenophis IH, king of Egypt, and preserved in the British Museum (BU. 88-1013.70). It is not the same as the letter translated on pages 263, 264, though with somewhat similar contents. Illustration from A Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities. 2d Edition, London, 1908. By permission of the Trustees of the British Museum. |