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Queen Ashayet

Ashayet or Ashait was an ancient Egyptian queen consort, a wife of Mentuhotep II in the 11th Dynasty. Her tomb (DBXI.17) and small...

King Sahure

Date of creation/manufacture: King Sahure (2458-2446 BC) Inventory number Main number: 18.2.4 Collection The Met Museum...

Standing statue of King Mentuhotep II

Statue of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II in the Jubilee Garment Twenty-two statues of this type stood beside (but not in the shadow of)...

Seated statue of the King Mentuhotp II

This life-size seated statue of the king Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II (names meaning: «The Lord of the rudder is Ra» and «Montu is...

Portrait Head of Queen Tiye

Tiye was the spouse of King Amenhotep III and mother of Akhenaten. This small portrait was probably produced in the last years of rule of...

Statuette of the Lady Tiye

By the second year of his reign, Amenhotep III was married to his "great royal wife," Queen Tiye. We know more about Tiye than we do...

Amenhotep III: Couples Statue

Date of creation/manufacture: Amenhotep III (-1391 - -1353) Provenance: KV 22 tomb of Amenhotep III (Valley of the Kings->West Valley)...

Amenhotep III: Wall Painting

Father of the famed “heretic Pharaoh,” Akhenaten, and grandfather to the famous King Tut, Amenhotep III was one Egypt’s greatest pharaohs...

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