Egyptian statue / sculpture - Queen Tiye - 18th dynasty - Akhenaten's mother / Tut's Grandma

Queen Tiye

18th Dynasty statue replica

Dimensions including stand - Height - 13 cm / 5- inches

Base - 3.8 cm x 3.8 cm / 1-1/2 x 1-1/2 inches

Mounted Moringa tree book docket

Dimensions including stand -
Height - 8.5 cm / 3-1/4 inches
Width - 5.5 cm / 2-1/4 inches

Available here is a Queen Tiye statue fragment and a Moringa tree book docket replica featuring the Queen's cartouche.

A special thematic duo made available here in a realistic format, mounted on custom made felt based stands.

THE STATUE FRAGMENT

It is a replica of a famous statue fragment of Queen Tiye that was found in the Sinai desert at Serabit el Khadim. It is the same size as the original and preserves much of the details that you can see on the fragment that is housed in the Cairo museum. Made of Temstone which is limestone and quartzite composition stone used for fine museum replicas.

She wears the remnants of a tripartite wig with Nubian style plaited locks and on her brow the double uraues. A head band features the cartouche of the Queen with protective winged cobras visible with long buckled tales trailing decoratively.

Not the most conventional beauty, Queen Tiy was often shown as in this piece with down turned lips and a worldly wize expression. Her rounded face suggests a more youthful Queen as later images depict a Queen with deep facial lines and hooded almond shaped eyes.

One of the most famous of Egyptian Queens she sat on the throne at the peak of Egyptian power and cultural expansion at the side of Amenhotep the third. Mother of Akhenaton and Grandmother of King Tutankhamun she was said to be a very forceful woman.

Tiye's book docket

The Moringa tree.
Reign of Amenhotep III 18th dynasty

Dimensions including stand :-
Height - 8.6 cm / 3-3/8 inches
Width - 5 cm / 2 inches

Made of a limestone and quartzite composition stone the docket has an aged blue patina with darker blue highlighting the incised glyphs.

In addition to the statue fragment is a rare and unusual item. It is a replica of an ancient device used for labelling books or chests of literary tablets in the document halls and libraries of Egypt.
Dockets or plates as they are known today were in use from early dynastic times when they were attached to chests or pots to describe at a glance what was contained within.
Later in history when papyrus scroll books numbered in the thousands in individual libraries, it was necessary to label the rolled up scroll with a docket like this one.

This particular example is a little more fancy and significant than most for it contains an intriguing inscription from the reign of Amenhotep III whose name appears in one of two cartouches. The other encircled name is that of his beloved Queen Tiye.
The lost book that this inorganic docket belonged to states that it was the book of the Moringa tree.

Experts can only surmise what the content of the lost book was. Perhaps it was a story, as trees feature prominently in Egyptian mythology or a medicinal synopsis of the tree's properties or how to grow it and when it flowered or bore fruit.

The full inscription translation is as follows :-

Moringa tree

"Beloved of Ptah, the king of the two lands, the good god Amenhotep III (Neb Maat Ra - which itself means possessor of the Maat of Ra the sun).... may he be given life; the wife of the king, Tiye, may she live."