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Updated: June 4, 2025
Mitani, though still an extensive power, had seen its best days at any rate when Tushratta with difficulty ascended the throne of his fathers. The name “Hanirabbat” by which it was known to all its neighbours, must be the older name, and also that of the original province to which later acquisitions had been united.
May she grant unto us both great gladness; may we know nothing but happiness.” All this notwithstanding, Nimmuria must die, and later Tushratta describes his own grief on the occasion: “And on that day I wept, I sat in sorrow. Food and drink I touched not on that day; grieved was my heart. I said, ‘Oh, that it had been I who died !’ ”
And now I have sent to thee a chariot and two horses, a youth and a maiden, the booty of the land of the Hittites.” This letter betrays itself as one of the earliest written for Tushratta by the fact that it makes no request for gold.
The characters of the two irreconcilable monarchs, who show each other up so admirably for our edification, make any question as to which had right on his side seem comparatively trifling. Tushratta was evidently much distressed that he dared not venture to send his Gilia back again and that none of the later letters which he had from Nimmuria contained any word of the golden images.
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