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Tiye (c. 1398 BC – 1338 BC, also spelled Tye, Taia, Tiy and Tiyi) was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III, mother of pharaoh Akhenaten and grandmother of pharaoh Tutankhamun; her parents were Yuya and Thuya.
Tiye was an ancient Egyptian queen of the Twentieth Dynasty; a secondary wife of Ramesses III, against whom she instigated a conspiracy. [1]Tiye is known from the Judicial Papyrus of Turin, which recorded that there was a harem conspiracy against Ramesses, in which several people in high positions in the pharaoh's government were involved.
Ramesses III, victim of the conspiracy. The Harem conspiracy was a coup d'état attempt against the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses III in 1155 BC. The principal figure behind the plot was one of the pharaoh's secondary wives, Tiye, who hoped to place her son Pentawer on the throne instead of the pharaoh's chosen successor Ramesses IV.
Gurob is the provenance of many important finds, including a head of queen Tiye, now in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin. [2] From a papyrus fragment found at the site, it is known that queen Maathorneferure lived here. She was the daughter of a Hittite king and wife of Ramses II. [3]
The colossal statue of Amenhotep III and Tiye is a monolith group statue of Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III of the eighteenth dynasty, his Great Royal Wife Tiye, and their daughter Princess Henuttaneb, mostly intact, along with two other daughters, partially destroyed and not visible in this image.
Amenhotep III, Tiye, and Beketaten. Beketaten is only known from the Amarna tomb of Huya, who was Queen Tiye's steward. [6] She is depicted in two scenes. In the first, Queen Tiye is shown seated opposite Pharaoh Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti. In one scene Beketaten is shown seated on a small chair next to her mother Tiye, and in the other ...
The tomb also contained several cosmetic objects, including alabaster vessels and a mirror. Some objects were inscribed with the name of king Amenhotep III and his wife queen Tiye, providing a dating for the burial. [5] In addition to wood, it is embellished with gold, semi-precious stones, and glass, used for the jewelry around her neck.
The so-called marriage scarabs actually refer not to the marriage itself, and neither do they mention a marriage date. They record the name of Amenhotep's chief queen Tiye (following that of her husband), along with the names of her parents, as if to explicitly state her non-royal birth: the name of her father is Yuya, the name of her mother is Thuya; she is married to the great king whose ...