and
(humbly?) he spoke my brother's message: I heard and then I said 'As I was
friends with _Amenophis III_ thy father, lo! now ten times more with
_Amenophis IV_ (_Nabkhuriya_) shall I be great friends.' So then I said to
_Khamassi_ your envoy.

"And lo! my brother: the treasures of gold to be remitted you shall not
send; and there (shall be) respite of gifts which your father spoke of
sending. It is desired that my brother shall not send them.

"Lo! my brother, the treasures of gold which I asked of your father I may
say that half of them will be carried off (or stolen) ... The lands are at
strife(404) ..."

The rest of this letter, including all the back, is too much broken to be
read. It appears to go on to speak of "destruction" and to refer to a
state of disturbance. It mentions the envoy _Khamassi_, and says, "Of what
he has brought the fourth part has been robbed." On the back _Gilia_ is
mentioned with gold, and relations between the writer and Amenophis III.
He refers again to the message from Amenophis IV and to _Teie_ his mother;
and invokes _Rimmon_ and _Amanu_. The words "unless they are conquered"
seem also to occur. This letter contained altogether 113 lines of writing.

26 B.--A list of presents. On the back, at the bottom of the left hand
column, is the statement, "These are the things carried by the female
slaves, all those things which _Dusratta_ King of _Mitani_ gave to
_Amenophis III_ his brother, his kinsman, when he sent his daughter
_Tadukhipa_ to the land of Egypt, to Amenophis III for marriage, he gave
all these that day."

The list is a very long and difficult one. It begins with two horses, and
a chariot plated with gold and silver, and adorned with precious stones.
The harness of the horses was adorned in like manner. Two camel litters
appear to be next noticed, and apparently variegated garments worked with
gold, and embroidered zones and shawls. These are followed by lists of
precious stones, and a horse's saddle adorned with gold eagles.(405) A
necklace of solid gold and gems, a bracelet of iron gilt,(406) an anklet
of solid gold, and other gold objects follow; and apparently cloths, and
silver objects, and vases of copper or bronze. An object of jade or jasper
(_Yaspu_), and leaves of gold, are noticed (both jade and leaves of gold
have actually been found in the oldest ruins at Troy), the former being
perhaps noticed as coming from _Elam_, by trade with central Asia, where
jade was