# Head From a Shabti (Funerary Figurine) of Queen Tiye

- By: Ancient Egyptian
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Henry H. Getty, Charles L. Hutchinson, and Norman W. Harris
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/120294)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/0b36fdcf-3026-cfc9-7865-74f13276bf69/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.

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