History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 5 (of 12) by Gaston Camille Charles Maspero
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Sutarna, King of Mitanni, and is mentioned several times in
the Tel el-Amarna correspondence. *** For example, Gilukhipa, whose name is transcribed Kilagîpa in Egyptian, and another princess of Mitanni, niece of Gilukhipa, called Tadu-khîpa, daughter of Dushratta and wife of Amenôthes IV. **** The prince of the Khâti's daughter who married Ramses II. is an example; we know her only by her Egyptian name Mâîtnofîrûrî. The wife of Ramses III. added to the Egyptian name of Isis her original name, Humazarati. When, after several years, an ambassador arrived with greetings from their father or brother, he would be puzzled by the changed appearance of these ladies, and would almost doubt their identity: indeed, those only who had been about them in childhood were in such cases able to recognise them.* These princesses all adopted the gods of their husbands,** though without necessarily renouncing their own. From time to time their parents would send them, with much pomp, a statue of one of their national divinities--Ishtar, for example--which, accompanied by native priests, would remain for some months at the court.*** * This was the case with the daughter of Kallimmasin, King of Babylon, married to Amenôthes III.; her father's ambassador did not recognise her. ** The daughter of the King of the Khâti, wife of Ramses II., is represented in an attitude of worship before her deified husband and two Egyptian gods. |
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