Lady of the Lions

NIN-UR.MAH.MEŠ (𒎏𒌨𒈤𒎌 Akkadian: Bēltu-nēšēti),[1] 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.

[2][3] 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".

The Amarna letters are mostly written in Akkadian cuneiform, with local words/phrases/etc due to various city-states or countries.

[5] Also called "Mistress of the Lionesses", she was a female "king" who ruled Beit Shemesh around 1350 BCE.

[6] The two letters by the 'Queen Mother', (of her unnamed location), are both minimally short and concise EA letters (26 lines and 19 lines) and are topically about the takeover of regional cities, by the attacking bands of people: the Hapiru, (EA for 'el Amarna').