Biography
For political reasons, Gilukhipa was sent to
Egypt
to join
Amenhotep III
in marriage. The Egyptian pharaoh made a special issue of commemorative
scarabs
on the occasion of his marriage to Gilukhipa in his 10th regnal year (ca.1378–1376 BCE), where he recorded that the princess was escorted by 317 ladies-in-waiting, women from the Mitanni king's royal palace.
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Gilukhipa became known as the "Secondary King's Wife," meaning she was secondary to Amenhotep III's chief wife, Queen
Tiye
.
Twenty-six years later, her niece
Tadukhepa
also became Amenhotep's wife.