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Dakhamunzu

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The title ("the king's wife," Egyptian ta hemet nesu) by which the Hittite archive names the widowed Egyptian queen who wrote to Suppiluliuma asking for a son to marry. Which queen wrote — and what became of the prince sent — is one of the great mysteries of the age, and the frame of Book 4. The letter episode is attested in the Hittite annals; the queen's identity is disputed.

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