ABSTRACT
In the correspondence (preserved in the Amarna archive) between King *Tushratta of *Mitanni and *Amenophis III, there are several letters which are concerned with the protracted negotiations over the dispatch of Princess *Tadukhepa to become the wife of *Amenophis III. He had earlier received another royal wife (*Ghilukhepa, *Tushratta’s sister) from *Mitanni, but *Tushratta now insisted that his daughter Tadukhepa should not only become *Amenophis III’s wife but that she should also be ‘Mistress of Egypt’. Eventually, she arrived in Egypt with a great assortment of costly gifts, but *Amenophis III was probably old and sick by then and Tadukhepa was ultimately transferred to the harem of his son, *Akhenaten (Amenophis IV), who was addressed as Napkhuria by the *Mitannians.
