King Amenhotep III and his wife Queen Tai /The greatness and creativity of the pharaohs.

King Amenhotep III and his wife Queen Tai 

Upon entering the Egyptian Museum, the first thing that attracts attention is a large and huge statue of a man and a woman.

Statue of King Amenhotep III and his wife Queen Tei, a statue that illustrates the greatness, luxury and creativity of the ancient Egyptians.

  

 

This huge statue was found by the Egyptian-German archaeological mission working in the temple of King Imenhotep III in the west of Luxor, headed by the Egyptologist "Horig Sorzian", and this statue dates to the eighteenth dynasty of the modern Egyptian state.

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The statue was made of limestone, and it is a group statue of the king and his wife and daughter. The king appears here sitting on a seat with an armrest and to his left is his wife and puts both hands on his legs and wears a kilt, a ferret head cover and a false beard. The artist showed the anatomical proportions of the chest, abdomen and legs, while his wife appears wearing a long, interwoven robe It reaches the heels and a long wig hangs on the chest and a crown above it and puts her right hand behind the back of the king, and this indicates the love and serenity that unites them, and on the face of both the king and the queen there appears a slight smile indicating happiness mixed with reverence.

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As for the daughter, the artist placed her in the middle between the legs of the king and the queen at a height up to the seat, wearing the same clothes as the queen, and leading with her left foot and her left hand clenched to the chest.

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 In the second year of the reign of King Imenhotep III, he married Queen T, and some thought that she was from the house of the Almitani owner until a cemetery was discovered for her parents, Yoya and Thuya, and Yuya was a priest and a pagan who worked in the royal palace and thus it became clear that she was a commoner of the people and this behavior is a major departure from Pharaonic traditions . But she was intelligently able to capture her husband's love and remained the most beloved and strongest of his women in his life.