indicate the level to which a name has been verified.
Gender Feminine
Usage Ancient Near Eastern
Other Forms FormsTadukhepa, Taduchepa, Taduḫepa, Tadoughepa
Meaning & History
From Hurrian Tadu-Hepa, in which the second element is the name of the sun goddess Hepa (also transcribed Hebat, Heba, Kheba, Khepat or Hepatu). This was the name of a princess of the Mitanni kingdom in northern Mesopotamia, who married the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III at the very end of his reign and later became one of the wives of Akhenaten (when he took over his father's royal harem). Thus some Egyptologists have proposed that Tadukhipa and Kiya were the same person (in which case Kiya would have been a diminutive of Tadukhipa).