Tanuhepa

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Tanuhepa (Danuhepa; fl. 1300 BCE)[1] was queen of the Hittite Empire, as the second wife of Muršili II.[2]

Biography

During the reign of the next Hittite king, her stepson Muwatalli II, she was put on trial and probably banished.[3][4] However she was reinstated during the reign of the following king, Mursili III.[5]

She came from a Hurrian background.[6][7]

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