n ... and _Teie_ is your mother, ask her if, among
the messages that I spake, there is one message which is not vindicated by
her, as to these (messages) to _Amenophis III_ your father ... if to
_Amenophis III_ your father brotherhood was made by me: if it was said by
_Amenophis III_ your father 'If at all (there is) gold that ... in the
land of _Khani Rabbe_ I will despatch it; and order thou thus the ... do
not I desire to cause it to be sent': the ... bore what was ordered to be
given of _Amenophis III_ your father; and _Amenophis III_ said to me '...
the treasures of gold ... all that my ... desires is sent ... and ... to
do this I have sent to thee' ... there by _Amenophis III_ with a message.
Never was there a message without a reply. I never refused any of the
messages.

"(And when) _Amenophis III_ was obliged to be taken to his fate, and they
told (me) ... I tore my cheeks, and I mourned on that same day; I sat (in
the dust?); I (took) no food or water that same day; and I was grieved ...
I said 'Let me perish myself from earth, and from my ... and that he loved
me God knows, and he was loved' (and because of) these things we are cast
down in our hearts."

"... to me the eldest son of _Amenophis III_ by his wife _Teie_ ... was
made, and I said 'Has not _Amenophis III_ died ... the eldest son of his
chief wife _Teie_ (is) in his stead ... shall not we be sent news ... from
her abode as of old.'

"... I say thus _Amenophis IV_ is my brother whom we shall love in our
hearts ... the son of _Amenophis III_ more than his father, because of
_Teie_ his mother, who was the wife ... as she desires a message to the
presence of _Amenophis IV_ (_Abkhuriya_) the son of _Amenophis III_ her
husband. I (rejoice) very exceeding much that we shall be friends

"(As they have sent me this message?) As they have ordered it, _Gilias_ is
humbly (sent?) ... they have sent _Mani_ (as an envoy?), and treasures of
woods (or trees) my brother has sent, and gold ... without gold and
without..."

The next passage is too broken to read, but refers to the continuance of
friendship since the time of the ancestors of both kings, and for the
future. The back of the tablet is very much broken, the whole of one
paragraph, and the greater part of the next, which refers to _Teie_ as the
mother of _Amenophis IV_ being destroyed. It continues:

"... the message of your mother which to _Gilias_ ... He has desired a
message to be despatched and (as