Lady_of_the_Lions
Lady of the Lions
Mesopotamian writer
NIN-UR.MAH.MEŠ, or the "Lady" of the Lions, was the author of two letters to the pharaoh, the King of Ancient Egypt, in the 1350–1335 BC Amarna letters correspondence.[1][2] Her name is a representation of the original written script characters of Babylonian 'Sumerograms' , "NIN- + UR.MAH + (plural:MEŠ)", and means, "woman–lion–plural", namely: "Lady (of the) Lions". (See: NIN for "lady"). The Amarna letters are mostly written in Akkadian cuneiform, with local words/phrases/etc due to various city-states or countries.
The name or location of her city/city-state are not stated in her letter.[3] Generally, she is theorized to have been a ruler of Beit Shemesh.[4]
Also called "Mistress of the Lionesses", she was a female "king" who ruled Beit Shemesh around 1350 BCE.[5]