Tuya (queen)

Tuya
Queen consort of Egypt

King's Mother Tuya
Full name Tuya or Mut-Tuya
Titles Great Royal Wife
Birthplace Thebes?
Place of death Thebes
Buried Valley of the Queens, Thebes
Consort Pharaoh Sety I
Dynasty 19th of Egypt
Father Raia
Mother [R]uia
Children Princess Tia
Ramesses II
Religious beliefs Ancient Egyptian religion
Queen Tuya
in hieroglyphs

Queen Tuya (also called Tuy or Mut-Tuya[1]) was the wife of Pharaoh Seti I of Egypt and mother of Princess Tia, Ramesses II and perhaps Henutmire. She was the daughter of Raia who was a military officer based on his title of Lieutenant of the chariotry.[2] Tuya's daughter, Princess Tia, was married to a high ranking civil servant who was also called Tia.[2]

As the mother of Ramesses II, she enjoyed a privileged existence of a respected king's mother and was allowed the opportunity to correspond with the Hittite royal court after the Year 21 peace treaty between Egypt and Hatti put in place by Ramesses II.

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Monuments and Inscriptions

Death and Burial

Tuya likely died soon after Year 22 of Ramesses' reign and was buried in an impressive tomb in the Valley of the Queens (QV80).[3] In her tomb, Tuya

"was stripped of the first part of her name to become plain Tuya for eternity; the loss of the prefix Mut- suggests that her death had ended in an almost divine earthly status."[3]

In popular culture

References

  1. ^ Joyce Tyldesley, Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaohs, Penguin Books, 2000. p.116
  2. ^ a b Tyldesley, p.116
  3. ^ a b c Tyldesley, p.122
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Kitchen, K.A., Rammeside Inscriptions, Translated & Annotated, Translations, Volume II, Blackwell Publishers, 1996
  5. ^ C. Desroche Noblecourt, "Abou Simbel, Ramses, et les dames de la couronne" in E. Bleiberg & R. Freed (eds) Fragments of a Shattered Visage: the Proceedings of the International Symposium of Ramesses the Great, 1991. Memphis: p.129