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When was Puduhepa born, and when did she die?

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Puduhepa appears in the documentary record as a priest's daughter married to the future king Hattusili III, then as high priestess and co-ruler through his reign and into that of her son Tudhaliya IV, one of the longest documented careers of any Hittite queen. Nothing fixes an actual birth or death year, only the span of her documented activity in seals and correspondence.

What would resolve this A Hittite dynastic text naming Puduhepa's age at marriage or at death, distinct from the sealed correspondence that fixes only the span of her public activity.
OpenHittite history, Late Bronze Age Anatolian chronologyItamar Singer; Harry A. Hoffner Jr. (ed.), Hittite Prayers
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Source Hittite PrayersItamar Singer; Harry A. Hoffner Jr. (ed.)
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Hittite Prayers
Itamar Singer; Harry A. Hoffner Jr. (ed.), Society of Biblical Literature, Writings from the Ancient World, 2002View the Source
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