Tushratta

Tushratta or Tushratta ( Akkadian Lugal KurḪa -ni -gal -ba -at Tu -us -e- rat- ta ) was a mitannischer king. The Salutation Lugal used in the el-Amarna letters ( in extension EN- in.MESCH ) Hurri is first occupied I. Mursilis. Usual designation is the king of the men of Hurri.

Longevity

In the Amarna letter EA 17 Artassumara is called as king of Mitanni and later mentioned in the report of Tushratta than my brother.

Amarna letters

In the 10th year of the reign of Amenhotep III. Tushratta is already mentioned as authorized signatory for the marriage of the daughter of Kiluchepa Šutarna II. Since Tushratta later reported that he was represented as a minor heir to the throne by a UD -HI, resulting in a very short period for government Artassumara. In the 30th year of the reign of Amenhotep III. Šutarna II had already died. Only six years later was Tušrattas daughter Taduchepa with Amenhotep III. married (EA 23).

Daughters were married off between the ages of 12 to 15 years. After Wolfgang Helcks theory Taduchepa was the earliest between the 22nd and 25th year of the reign of Amenhotep III. born. The age of Tushratta would then accordingly to put on about 11 to 15 years. Wolfgang Helck, therefore, sets the government beginning of Tushratta in the 15th - 18th Year of the reign of Amenhotep III. , What a birth of Tushratta in the period from the 10th to the 14th year of the reign of Amenhotep III. would mean. However, this heading collides with the note in the 10th year of the reign of Amenhotep III. In which Tushratta named as authorized signatory. If you follow this Timeline, Tušrattas birth is even to put IV in the last years of the reign of Thutmose, which again is contrary to the previous chronology. The contradiction could not be satisfactorily explained to this day.

Commencement of government

After Tushratta was probably used as a puppet king, managed to take him the power and UD HI and kill its followers. Tushratta took on diplomatic ties with Egypt again, which was canceled after the death Artassumaras (EA 17-29 ). In his first letter (EA 17) he sent spoils of a campaign against Hatti to his "brother" Amenhotep III. ( Nimmuriya ). In a later letter (EA 21) reported Tushratta as he receives the Egyptian ambassador Mane and his interpreter Uane with high honors and richly rewarded. So he was very careful to maintain good relations with Egypt, whose power was certainly understood in the north on the wane.

After the death of Amenhotep III. married Amenhotep IV Taduchepa.

Under Tushratta large parts Mitannis were conquered by the Hittites under Suppiuliuma I., it but did not succeed to establish a permanent rule. Tušrattas son Šattiwaz (z ) a followed him on the throne, he was married to a daughter Suppiluliumas.