Ḫinti

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Ḫinti or Ḫenti was a Hittite Great Queen ( Tawananna ) and the first wife of Šuppiluliuma I. Her predecessor as Great Queen was Daduḫepa , mother of Šuppiluliuma, her successor was Tawananna , the second wife of Šuppiluliuma. Ḫinti was very likely the mother of all five sons of Šuppiluliuma: Arnuwanda , crown prince and successor of Šuppiluliuma, Telipinu , Pijaššili , Zannanza (see Dahamunzu affair ) and Muršili , who became Great King after Arnuwanda's death. Otherwise little is known about her life. Some seal impressions attest to her being the Great Queen, but since Daduḫepa, the mother of Šuppiluliuma, continued to be Great Queen (great queens usually remained in office for life), she had to wait a long time before she became Great Queen herself. Apparently she was still alive when Šuppiluliuma married a Babylonian princess, because she, who took the (personal) name Tawananna after the marriage, was initially not sealed as the Great Queen after the marriage, but as the "daughter of the Great King" (meaning: the Great King of Babylonia), which means that Ḫinti continued to be Great Queen and as such also carried out official acts. Trevor R. Bryce suspects that the highly fragmented text of a prayer ( KUB 14.2, CTH 214.12A), which probably speaks of a banishment of a person from the environment of a great king to Aḫḫijawa , can possibly be interpreted as meaning that Ḫinti from Šuppiluliuma was banned and deposed as the Great Queen. However, the text is so sketchy that it is not even clear whether a woman was banished to Aḫḫijawa at all ; if so, two other great queens, Danuḫepa and Tawananna , would also come into question.

literature

  • Heinrich Otten : The Hittite Great Queen Henti in her seals. Journal of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology Volume 82, Issue 2, 1994, pp. 253–261 (accessed via De Gruyter Online)
  • Trevor R. Bryce: The Kingdom of the Hittites. Oxford University Press, revised new edition 2005, ISBN 978-0-19-928132-9 p. 159 f.
  • Daliah Bawanypeck: The Queens on the Seals. In: Alfonso Archi, Rita Francia (ed.): VI Congresso Internazionale di Ittitologia, Roma 5-9 September 2005. Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 49/1, 2007, pp. 49-58. ( online at Academia.edu )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Trevor R. Bryce : The Kingdom of the Hittites. Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 159
  2. ^ Trevor R. Bryce: The Kingdom of the Hittites. Oxford University Press, revised 2005 edition, p. 160.
  3. ↑ Daliah Bawanypeck: The Queens on the Seals. In: Alfonso Archi, Rita Francia (ed.): VI Congresso Internazionale di Ittitologia, Roma 5-9 September 2005. Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 49/1, 2007, p. 56f.
  4. ↑ on this text already in detail Ferdinand Sommer : The Aḫḫijava documents. Treatises of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Phil.- hist. Dept. NF6, Munich 1932, pp. 298–306.
  5. ^ Trevor R. Bryce: The Kingdom of the Hittites. Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 159 f.
  6. ↑ See in detail Gary M. Beckman, Trevor R. Bryce, Eric H. Cline : The Ahhiyawa Texts (= Writings from the Ancient World 28). Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta 2011, ISBN 978-1-58983-268-8 , pp. 158-161.
personal data
SURNAME Ḫinti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ḫenti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hittite great queen
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 14th century BC BC or 13th century BC Chr