Amenhotep III promised the king of Mittani solid-gold statues for his daughter, and after Amenhotep died his son sent gold-plated wood

Tushratta, king of Mittani, gave his daughter Tadu-Heba to Pharaoh Amenhotep III. He wrote that he gave her at the first request, where his grandfather had waited for a seventh request and his father for a fifth or sixth. In return Amenhotep III promised statues of solid gold of Tushratta and his daughter. Tushratta said his messengers had seen the gold with their own eyes. Amenhotep III died. His son Akhenaten took over his father's women, and Tadu-Heba became Akhenaten's wife. The statues that came from the new king were wood plated with gold. Tushratta wrote to Queen Teye, Amenhotep III's widow, asking her to tell her son how close the two kings had been (EA 26). He wrote to Akhenaten that the promised statues should be cast in front of Mittani envoys (EA 27). When Akhenaten held two of his messengers, Tushratta kept the Egyptian envoy Mane in Mittani (EA 28). The solid statues never came. The Hittite king Suppiluliuma attacked Mittani. A later treaty between Suppiluliuma and Tushratta's son Shattiwaza says Tushratta was assassinated by a group led by one of his own sons. Suppiluliuma then placed Shattiwaza on the throne, and Mittani became a Hittite client. The letters are clay tablets found at Amarna and numbered EA 17 to 29.