egypt-museum:Mask of Lady TjuyuLady Tjuyu was the wife of Yuya and the mother of Queen Tiye. She is
egypt-museum:Mask of Lady TjuyuLady Tjuyu was the wife of Yuya and the mother of Queen Tiye. She is the grandmother of Akhenaten, and great grandmother of Tutankhamun. Lady Tjuyu was buried along with her husband in tomb (KV46) in the Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. The tomb was found nearly intact and displays the funerary furniture of high courtiers.The mummy of Lady Tjuyu, placed in three anthropoid coffins, one inside the other, has a beautiful gilded and inlaid cartonnage mask. This mask, which was supposed to preserve the features of Tjuyu, aimed to help the soul recognize its wrapped corpse to facilitate resurrection.Linen gauze covered the mask, which depicted the fine looking, distinguished and smiling face of Lady Tjuyu. The eyebrows, eyes and eyelids, as well as the broad collar, are all inlaid with stones and colored glass.New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1391-1353 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 95254 -- source link