Head From a Shabti (Funerary Figurine) of Queen Tiye
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, Reign of Akhenaten (about 1352–1336 BCE)
- Medium
- Travertine (Egyptian alabaster) with traces of pigment
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- 7.6 × 5.8 × 2.6 cm (3 × 2 1/4 × 1 in.)
- Culture
- Egypt
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Africa
- Credit line
- Gift of Henry H. Getty, Charles L. Hutchinson, and Norman W. Harris
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The form of the crown, full lips, down-turned edges of the mouth and almond-shaped eyes identify this fragment as Queen Tiye. She was the influential wife of pharaoh Amunhotep III. This head may originally have come from a statuette made during the reign of her son, Akhenaten.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
