Thitmanat

Thitmanat is called 'the eighth' because she is, and the epic makes a point of El having blessed Kirta so that the youngest would hold the rank of the firstborn — which is the kind of clause that turns up again in a great deal of later Near Eastern literature. Her scene at the sickbed is what the Kirta epic is remembered for outside specialist reading: a daughter weeping over a father who is not supposed to be able to die, because a king is a son of El, and finding out that he can.

Parentage

• parent: Kirta
• parent: Hurraya

Relations

• sibling: YassibSister of Yassib.Reference treatment of the Kirta epic and its royal family. (secondary)
• sibling: IlhuSister of Ilhu.Reference treatment of the Kirta epic and its royal family. (secondary)

Sources

• Thitmanat is the youngest daughter of Kirta and Hurraya in the Kirta epic, whose name means 'the eighth', and who grieves at her father's sickbed.: The Kirta epic. (primary); Reference treatment of the Kirta epic and its cast. (secondary)