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Colossal Statue of Amenhotep III and Tiye
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1391-1353 BC.
Originally stood in Medinet Habu, Thebes.
Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 33906
This colossal statue of Amenhotep III and Tiye is a group statue and three of their daughters. It is the largest known Ancient Egyptian family group ever carved. The almond-shaped eyes and arched eyebrows of the figures are of typical late 18th Dynasty style.
Amenhotep III wears the nemes headdress with the uraeus or royal cobra, a false beard and a kilt. He is resting both his hands on his knees. Queen Tiye is sitting on his left, with her right arm placed around her husband’s waist. Her height is equal to that of the king, which shows her prominent status. She wears an ankle-length, close-fitting dress and a big wig with a vulture headdress.
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If your Warm Up Match opponent pulls out both of these ladies you might as well just forfeit
So. Fellow Anna not-havers. How's this season of Warm Up Match been treating you?
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my beloved girlies
alt ver with cool colours just bc
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~ Fragmentary bronze menyet showing in flat profile the head of a queen, possibly Tiye.
Place of origin: Amarna, Middle Egypt
Date: ca. 1550 - 1292 B.C.
Period: 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom
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Portrait of Queen Tiye
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, c. 1391-1353 B.C.
From Medinet el-Gurob.
Now in the Neues Museum, Berlin. ÄM 21834, ÄM 17852
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Amenhotep III the Magnificent announced his marriage in a series of commemorative scarabs, the same shape as the well-known beetle amulets, which modern tourists have carried away from Egypt by the thousands, but large enough to contain a short inscription on the flattened base. This inscription read:
May he live, Amenhotep III, given life, and the King’s Great Wife Tiye, who lives. The name of her father is Yuya, the name of her mother is Thuya; she is the wife of a mighty king whose southern boundary is as far as Karoy, and northern as far as Naharin!
This announcement can be interpreted in a number of ways, but to me it sounds like a challenge. Tiye was not a king’s daughter. The tomb of her parents was found in 1905. It had been entered in ancient times, the coffins opened and some of the grave goods stolen. A lot was left, though, and the exposed mummies were in excellent condition. Tiye’s father, Yuya, was a fine-looking man; suggestions that was non-Egyptian, of Asiatic or Nubian origin, have no actual basis in fact. Yuya’s titles are not indicative of high rank. He is called “Master of the Horse,” and parts of a model chariot found in the tomb bear out this role. His wife had the usual titles of a court lady, in addition to being designated “Mother of the King’s Chief Wife.”
-Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphics by Barbara Mertz
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here's my girl Tiye cause I really wanna get her soon
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The universe is telling me...not to clean my room today~
my friend referred to this as underwater hippie vibes and that is the biggest compliment I could have asked for.
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