Henutempet

Henutempet was a Mitanni princess who married into the Egyptian royal family, and she was likely the Mitanni wife of Thutmose IV.

Life Two funerary cone inscriptions belong respectively to "the steward of the Noble Lady of Mitanni, Bengay" and "the steward of Henutempet, Bengay." As these two cones are attributed to the same individual, the name of the "Noble Lady of Mitanni" is accordingly identified as Henutempet. According to van Dijk, the title "Noble Lady of Mitanni" would have held specific referential force only when there was but one such princess in Egypt; it should therefore designate the first Mitanni princess to have married into Egypt, namely the wife of Thutmose IV.

Henutempet's husband, Thutmose IV, was the first Egyptian pharaoh to marry a Mitanni princess.

Her original Mitanni name remains unknown, the name Henutempet was likely bestowed upon her after her arrival in Egypt.

Burial Van Dijk proposed that the coffin unearthed in the Deir el-Bahri royal cache (TT 320) belongs to the Mitanni noblewoman Henutempet. However, other scholars maintain that the owner of this coffin is in fact Ahmose-Henutempet of the Seventeenth Dynasty.