uage of their adopted country, that
they dropped all intercourse with their native land, and became regular
Egyptians.

* The daughter of the King of the Khati, wife of Ramses IL,
was treated, as we see from the monuments, with as much
honour as would have been accorded to Egyptian princesses of
pure blood.

** Gilukhipa, who was sent to Egypt to become the wife of
Amenothes III., took with her a company of three hundred and
seventy women for her service. She was a daughter of
Sutarna, King of Mitanni, and is mentioned several times in
the Tel el-Amarna correspondence.

*** For example, Gilukhipa, whose name is transcribed
Kilagipa in Egyptian, and another princess of Mitanni, niece
of Gilukhipa, called Tadu-khipa, daughter of Dushratta and
wife of Amenothes IV.

**** The prince of the Khati's daughter who married Ramses
II. is an example; we know her only by her Egyptian name
Maitnofiruri. The wife of Ramses III. added to the Egyptian
name of Isis her original name, Humazarati.

When, after several years, an ambassador arrived with greetings from
their father or brother, he would be puzzled by the changed appearance
of these ladies, and would almost doubt their identity: indeed, those
only who had been about them in childhood were in such cases able
to recognise them.* These princesses all adopted the gods of their
husbands,** though without necessarily renouncing their own. From time
to time their parents would send them, with much pomp, a statue of one
of their national divinities--Ishtar, for example--which, accompanied by
native priests, would remain for some months at the court.***

* This was the case with the daughter of Kallimmasin, King
of Babylon, married to Amenothes III.; her father's
ambassador did not recognise her.

** The daughter of the King of the Khati, wife of Ramses
II., is represented in an attitude of worship before her
deified husband and two Egyptian gods.

*** Dushratta of Mitanni, sending a statue of Ishtar to his
daughter, wife of Amenothes III., reminds her that the same
statue had already made the voyage to Egypt in the time of
his father Sutarna.

The children of these queens ranked next in order to those whose mothers
belonged to the solar race, but nothing prevented them marrying their
brothers or sisters of pure descent, and being eventuall