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Joint Stamp Seal of Hittite King Hattushili and Queen Puduhepa
Boğazköy (Hattuşaş)
Late Bronz age,
Hittite Empire 1265-1235 B.C.
Clay
Çorum Museum.
Hittite queens enjoyed equal powers with the kings. This seal impression bears a winged sun disc above, and below, the names and titles in Hieroglyphic Hittite of the Great Queen Puduhepa, right, and the Great King Hattushili III, left. In the margin around the circle is a legend written in Hittite cuneiform script.

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