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From Hurrian #Tadu-Hepa#, in which the second element is the name of the sun goddess #Hepa# (also transcribed #Hebat#, #Heba#, #Kheba#, #Khepat# or #Hepatu#). This was the name of a princess of the Mitanni kingdom in northern Mesopotamia, who married the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III at the very end of his reign and later became one of the wives of Akhenaten (when he took over his father's royal harem). Thus some Egyptologists have proposed that Tadukhipa and KIYA were the same person (in which case Kiya would have been a diminutive of Tadukhipa).