# Henti

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{{Infobox royalty
| name                      = Ḫenti
| image_size                = 
| alt                       = 
| caption                   = 
| title                     = Queen of [Hittite empire](/source/Hittite_empire)
| spouse                    = [Šuppiluliuma I](/source/%C5%A0uppiluliuma_I)
| issue                     = [Arnuwanda II](/source/Arnuwanda_II)<br/>Telipinu<br/>[Piyaššili](/source/Piyassili)<br/>[Muršili II](/source/Mur%C5%A1ili_II)<br/>[Zannanza](/source/Zannanza)
| father                    = [Tudḫaliya III](/source/Tudhaliya_III)
| mother                    = Dadu-Ḫeba ?
}}

'''Ḫenti''' (or Ḫinti) was a [Hittite](/source/Hittite_Empire) queen, the first wife of the great king [Šuppiluliuma I](/source/%C5%A0uppiluliuma_I).<ref>Klengel 1999: 137; Bryce 2005: 159; Freu 2007b: 200.</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Stavi |first=Boaz |date=December 2011 |title=The Genealogy of Suppiluliuma I |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1524/aofo.2011.0015 |journal=Altorientalische Forschungen |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=226–239 |doi=10.1524/aofo.2011.0015 |s2cid=163701676 |issn=0232-8461|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==Biography==
Ḫenti is described on her seal as the "great queen, daughter of the great king, the hero," making her the daughter of the great king [Tudḫaliya III](/source/Tudhaliya_III) (sometimes called Tudḫaliya II).<ref>Freu 2007b: 199-201; Stavi 2011: 228-230, 236; Taracha 2016: 492-493; Bilgin 2018: 26 n. 72.</ref> Šuppiluliuma, long considered the son of his predecessor,<ref>Klengel 1999: 127-129, 137; Bryce 2005: 148-155.</ref> was therefore his son-in-law and possibly adopted son.<ref>Freu 2007b: 198-201; Stavi 2011: 228-230, 236; Taracha 2016: 492-493; Bilgin 2018: 26 n. 72.</ref> Šuppiluliuma, long closely associated with Tudḫaliya III, seized the throne by eliminating Tudḫaliya's possibly underage son and heir, [Tudḫaliya the Younger](/source/Tudhaliya_the_Younger), who would have been a brother or half-brother of Ḫenti.<ref>Freu 2007b: 199-200; Taracha 2016: 490.</ref>

At the very beginning of Šuppiluliuma's reign the title of [Tawananna](/source/Tawananna) was retained by Dadu-Ḫeba,<ref>Klengel 1999: 137, n. 4; Bryce 2005: 159.</ref> his mother-in-law, the widow of Tudḫaliya III and possibly mother of Tudḫaliya the Younger and perhaps Ḫenti.<ref>Freu 2007b: 209, who believes she was identical to the queen named Šatandu-Ḫeba; Stavi 2011: 227.</ref> Following the death of Dadu-Ḫeba, the title of Tawananna passed to Ḫenti, and she is attested by this title in the text of the decree appointing her son Telipinu priest in [Kizzuwatna](/source/Kizzuwatna).<ref>Klengel 1999: 165-167; Bryce 2005: 159; Freu 2007b: 210-211.</ref> Ḫenti's tenure as Tawananna is sometimes said to have been relatively short, as the title was next assumed by Šuppiluliuma's [Babylon](/source/Babylon)ian wife, known simply as Tawananna (her personal name was perhaps Malnigal).<ref>Klengel 1999: 137, n. 3; Bryce 2005: 159, 433 n. 24; Freu 2007b: 257.</ref> In fact, there are relatively numerous attestations of Šuppiluliuma and Ḫenti as the royal couple on seals, and Ḫenti might have lasted as Tawananna for a good while, Šuppiluliuma perhaps marrying his Babylonian wife later in his reign.<ref>Freu 2007b: 210, 257.</ref>

A fragmentary text from the reign of Ḫenti's son [Muršili II](/source/Mur%C5%A1ili_II) makes reference to his father, mother, and a banishment of someone to the land of [Aḫḫiyawa](/source/Achaeans_(Homer)). A common interpretation of the text is that it was Ḫenti who was banished into exile.<ref>Bryce 2005: 160; Burney 2004: 258; Freu 2007b: 201, 210, 257.</ref> If it was her, the reasons for her exile are unclear, although one possibility is the desirability of a marriage alliance with the [Kassite](/source/Kassites) king of Babylon (probably [Burna-Buriaš II](/source/Burna-Buriash_II)),<ref>Bryce 2005: 160; Freu 2007b: 257.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tawananna.com/archives/401|title=Tawananna » Queen Henti|website=www.tawananna.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211170603/http://www.tawananna.com/archives/401|access-date=2016-05-15|archive-date=2014-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of the Hittites|first=Charles|last=Burney|page=258}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=van den Hout |first=Theo |date=2024-01-01 |title=''The Hittites: Lost Civilizations'' |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/728418 |journal=American Journal of Archaeology |volume=128 |issue=1 |pages=E1–E2 |doi=10.1086/728418 |s2cid=265082494 |issn=0002-9114|url-access=subscription }}</ref> or conflict between Ḫenti and Šuppiluliuma's new Babylonian wife.<ref>Bilgin 2018: 24 n. 55.</ref>

Ḫenti is believed to have been the mother of Šuppiluliuma's sons [Arnuwanda II](/source/Arnuwanda_II), Telipinu, [Piyaššili](/source/Piyassili), Muršili II, and [Zannanza](/source/Zannanza).<ref>Bryce 2005: 160; Burney 2004: 258; Freu 2007b: 200.</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bryce |first=Trevor R. |date=December 1989 |title=Some Observations on the Chronology of Šuppiluliuma's Reign |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/anatolian-studies/article/abs/some-observations-on-the-chronology-of-suppiluliumas-reign/6057DDDA858483E5D5E19E71F1793820 |journal=Anatolian Studies |language=en |volume=39 |pages=19–30 |doi=10.2307/3642809 |jstor=3642809 |s2cid=163090197 |issn=2048-0849|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==In fiction==
Queen Henti is a character in the [historical fiction](/source/historical_fiction) [manga](/source/manga) ''[Red River](/source/Red_River_(manga))''.

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{{Hittite tree according to Freu |state=collapsed}}

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Bilgin, Tayfun (2018), ''Official and Administration in the Hittite World'', Berlin.
* Bryce, Trevor (1989), "Some Observations on the Chronology of Šuppiluliuma's Reign," ''Anatolian Studies'' 39 (1989) 9-30.
* Bryce, Trevor (2005), ''The Kingdom of the Hittites'', Oxford.
* Burney, Charles (2004), ''Historical Dictionary of the Hittites'', Lanham.
* Freu, Jacques, and Michel Mazoyer (2007b), ''Les débuts du nouvel empire hittite'', Paris.
* Klengel, Horst (1999), ''Geschichte des Hethitischen Reiches'', Leiden.
* Stavi, Boaz (2011), "The Genealogy of Suppiluliuma I," ''Altorientalische Forschungen'' 38 (2011) 226–239. [https://www.academia.edu/5905056/Stavi_2011_The_Genealogy_of_Suppiluliuma_I online]
* Taracha, Piotr (2016), "Tudhaliya III's Queens, Šuppiluliuma's Accession and Related Issues," in Sedat Erkut and Özlem Sir Gavaz (eds.), ''Studies in Honour of Ahmet Ünal Armağanı'', Istanbul: 489–498.

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