Harapšeki bat Telipinu, Queen of the Hittites

• Preferred Name: Harapšeki bat Telipinu, Queen of the Hittites^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• Death: Y
  
• FSID: GQG4-VLP
  
• Birth: 1551 BC with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Residence: banished with her husband to Malitashkur - by her father King Telepinu
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Both Harapšili and her husband Alluwamna were banished to Malitashkur for being associated with a man called Šanku, who had committed the crime of withholding a tribute of grain and wine.
  
  -- Swartzentrover.com: Telepinu King of the Hittites
  -- Wikiwand: Alluwamna

1. Hantili ap Alluwamna 11th King of the Hittites II,     d. 1451 BC

1. Title: Swartzentrover.com: Telepinu King of the Hittites
   Publication: Name: http://swartzentrover.com/cotor/Bible/Timelines/Hittites/Telepinu.htm;
   Note: Telepinu or (Telepinus) was the name of a king of the Hittites c. 1500 BC. At the beginning of his reign, the Hittite Empire had contracted to its core territories, having long since lost all of its conquests, made in the former era under Hattusili I and Mursili I -- to Arzawa in the West, Mitanni in the East, the Kaskas in the North, and Kizzuwatna in the South. Telepinu was able to recover a little ground from the Hurrians of Mitanni, by forming an alliance with the Hurrians of Kizzuwatna; however, with the end of his reign, the Hittite Empire enters a temporary "Dark Ages", the Middle Kingdom, lasting around 70 years, when records become too scanty to draw many conclusions. He was the Son-in-Law of Ammuna Titles Tabarna, Great King Name Hattic Queen Ištapariya, wife, first-rank sister of Huzziya I. She preserved the royal blood rather than Telipinu. She was killed in a political intrigue. See The Telipinu Proclamation. (See also Otten (1987) Abb. 3). Family Ammuna, son: Killed in a political intrigue sometime after the murder of his mother, Ištapariya. Harapšili, daughter: Also written Harapšeki. Married to Alluwamna. Both Alluwamna and Harapšili were banished for being associated with a man called Šanku, who had committed the crime of withholding a tribute of grain and wine. Tahurwaili is mentioned in this same fragmentary text (CTH #23). Telipinu becomes king: Huzziya I tried to have Telipinu and Ištapariya killed, but Telipinu received word of the attempt, drove out Huzziya and his accomplices, and took the throne. The death of Huzziya I and his five brothers: Huzziya I had five brothers whom Telipinu exiled to estates for supporting Huzziya when he attempted to kill Telipinu. During Telipinu’s reign, Huzziya I and his five brothers were killed by Tanuwa the Staff Bearer, supposedly without Telipinu’s knowledge. Tanuwa, Tahurwaili, and Taruhšu (all of whom had killed sons of Ammuna at one point or another) were condemned by the pankuš (the assembly), but Telipinu overruled the decision and made them into farmers instead (Telipinu, after all, benefited greatly from their neferious activities). The Telipinu Proclamation: He drew up his Proclamation in an attempt to end the constant assassinations and to secure the means of succession in the Hittite realm. See The Telipinu Proclamation. Military Exploits: He appears to have solidified the Hittite territorial position and even expanded it a little. He destroyed the city of Haššuwa. The losses of Arzawa, the lands beyond the Taurus (principally Kizzuwatna), and Syria were accepted. He is the first king to make a treaty with a foreign state, that of Kizzuwatna (CTH #21). The Kizzuwatnan king Išputahšu claimed the title of Great King, and the kingdom was powerful for the next century. He defeated Luhha. The Hittite Laws: Hoffner (1995) p. 214 considers the first attestation of the Laws to have been compiled by Telipinu. His reasoning is that the script matches and that Telipinu’s proclamation includes laws at the end of it, and is a legal document itself.
   
2. Title: Wikiwand: Alluwamna
   Author: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
   Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Alluwamna;
   Note: Alluwamna was a king of the Hittites (Middle Kingdom), ca. mid-15th century BC (short chronology timeline). He might be a successor of Telipinu as his son-in-law, after the reign of Tahurwaili. Family The wife of Alluwamna was called Harapšeki. Her father was Telipinu. The son of Alluwamna, who later became a king, was Hantili II. Reign Alluwamna's reign is attested by a seal (SBo I.86) named the "Tabarna seal." As a son-in-law of Telepinu (married to his first-rank daughter Harapšeki), Alluwamna would have been first in line for the throne. However, Telepinu banished him and his wife to Malitashkur (see KUB 26:77), and so it is possible that he did not come to the throne right after Telepinu's death, but rather after the reign of Tahurwaili, first cousin of Telipinu One text of Alluwamna records the granting of land to his son and likely successor Hantili II.
   
3. Title: "Officials and Administration in the Hittite World," by Tayfun Bilgin
   Author: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, Dec 3, 2018
   Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=eheBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA69&dq=Harap%C5%A1eki&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q=Harap%C5%A1eki&f=false;
   Note: There are few studies that deal with an overall treatment of the Hittite administrative system, and various other works on its offices and officials have tended to be limited in scope, focusing only on certain groups or certain time periods. This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the administrative organization of the Hittite state throughout its history (ca. 1650–1180 BCE) with particular emphasis on the state offices and their officials. Bringing together previous works and updating with data recovered in recent years, the study presents a detailed survey of the high offices of the state, a prosopographical study of about 140 high officials, and a theoretical analysis of the Hittite administration in respect to factors such as hierarchy, kinship, and diachronical changes.
   
4. Title: Wikiwand: Telipinu
   Author: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
   Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Telipinu;
   Note: Telipinu was a king of the Hittites ca. 1460 BC (short chronology timeline). At the beginning of his reign, the Hittite Empire had contracted to its core territories, having long since lost all of its conquests, made in the former era under Hattusili I and Mursili I – to Arzawa in the West, Mitanni in the East, the Kaskians in the North, and Kizzuwatna in the South. Biography Telipinu was a son-in-law of Ammuna and brother-in-law of Huzziya I as a husband of Ammuna's daughter Ištapariya. His name was taken from the agricultural god Telipinu. During Telipinu’s reign, Huzziya and his five brothers were killed. His son and wife were killed by Telepinu's rivals to the throne. The assassins were caught and sentenced to death, but Telepinu showed his desire to stop the bloodshed (many of his predecessors were assassinated or die mysteriously) and banish these assassins instead. He was able to recover a little ground from the Hurrians of Mitanni, by forming an alliance with the Hurrians of Kizzuwatna; however, with the end of his reign, the Hittite Empire enters a temporary "Dark Ages", the Middle Kingdom, lasting around 70 years, when records become too scanty to draw many conclusions. Telepinu is perhaps most famous for drawing up the "Edict of Telepinu," which dictated the laws of succession for the Hittite throne. It was designed to stop all the royal murders which had taken place in the previous decades, which had destabilised the empire and reduced the empire to only its heartland. "Let a prince – a son of the first rank only be installed as king! If a prince of the first rank does not exist, (then) let he who is a son of second rank become king. But if there is no prince, no male issue, (then) let them take an antiyant-husband for she who is a first rank daughter, and let him become king." Family Alluwamna was a son-in-law of Telipinu, because he married Princess Harapšeki, and Telipinu was her father.