Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III and matriarch of the Amarna family from which many members of the royal family of Ancient Egypt were born.
3¾ inches high New Kingsom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1355 BC Yew wood, silver, gold and faience inlays
bust now in Berlin.
photo Dorothea Arnold The Royal Women of Amarna New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996 JPEG image courtesy of Mark S. Moak Professor of Art, Rocky Mountain College[/b]
Tiye, a queen of the 20th Dynasty, was married to Ramesses III (c. 1194-1163 B.C.). She was involved in the harem plot, which sought to assassinate the king and place her son on the throne of Egypt, and was mentioned in the Juridical Papyrus of Turin. The plot against the king was discovered, and the queen and the other members of the cabal were tried in a royal court. Nothing is known of the fate of Queen Tiye in the affair.
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