Daduḫepa
Daduḫepa or Duduḫepa was a Hittite Great Queen ( Tawananna ). She was the wife of the Great King Tudḫaliya II and mother of Tudḫaliya (III.) And Šuppiluliuma I. Already under Tudḫaliya II. Great Queen, she kept her office during a possible short reign of Tudḫaliyas III. and at the beginning of the reign of Šuppiluliumas I. Her successor as the Great Queen was Šuppiluliumas first witnessed wife Ḫinti .
According to Emil Forrer's interpretation of a short, fragmentary text ( CTH 214.12.a; KUB 14.2) , Daduḫepa is said to have come from Aḫḫijawa and was later exiled there until the death of Šuppiluliuma I. Then she returned to Ḫatti . However, Forrer's interpretation of the text is considered "highly speculative" in more modern research, since neither the name of the Great Queen is preserved in the highly fragmented text, nor can it be inferred from the text that she was banished out of the country. Trevor R. Bryce thinks it is possible that the text refers to Ḫinti, Daduḫepa's successor.
literature
- Waltraud Sperlich: The Hittites, The forgotten people , Jan Thorbecke Verlag GmbH, Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 3-7995-7982-6
- Johannes Lehmann : The Hittites, people of a thousand gods , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1975, page 239, ISBN 3-570-02610-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kenneth Anderson Kitchen : Suppiluliuma and the Amarna pharaohs: a study in relative chronology , Liverpool University Press, 1962, p. 1 Online
- ↑ Horst Klengel : History of the Hittite Empire, p. 137 online
- ^ Charles Burney : Historical Dictionary of the Hittites , Scarecrow Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0810849365 , p. 258 Online
- ↑ Trevor R. Bryce : The role of Telepinu the priest, in the hitite kingdom , in: Hethitica XI., (Bibliotheque des Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain (BCILL), 1992, p. 7)
- ↑ Emil Forrer : Aḫḫijavâ. In: Erich Ebeling , Bruno Meissner and Dietz-Otto Edzard (eds.): Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Aräologie , Volume 1, S. 54
- ^ Wolfgang Röllig : Achaeans and Trojans in Hittite sources? In: Ingrid Gamer-Wallert (ed.): Troia: Bridge between Orient and Occident , 1992, ISBN, pp. 188-189 online
- ^ Trevor R. Bryce: The Kingdom of the Hittites. Oxford University Press, revised new edition 2005, pp. 159f.
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| SURNAME | Daduḫepa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Duduḫepa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hittite great queen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 14th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 14th century BC Chr. |