Egypt
- Jhu 2008 Season At Luxor Now Online
The JHU Gazette Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her team are again sharing their work with the world through an online diary: a digital window into the day-to-day life on an archaeological expedition. This month, visitors to Hopkins in Egypt Today at www.jhu.edu/egypttoday...
- Karnak Excavation Returns To Web For Second Time In 2007
http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2007/29may07/29briefs.html "For the second time this year, Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her crew will be sharing their work with the world via their popular online diary, a digital window into day-to-day life on an archaeological...
- Queen Tiy
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/779/eg9.htmA short article on the Al Ahram website, reproduced in full here, offering a couple of new details: "A beautiful black granite statue of Queen Tiye, mother of the monotheistic king Akhnaten, was unearthed last...
- Egyptian Excavation Returns To The Web
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/509197/ "Newswise — The world is invited to watch Johns Hopkins University archaeologists uncover clues to ancient Egyptian life by visiting “Hopkins in Egypt Today,” a Web site chronicling the university’s...
- Pieces Of Amenhotep And Tiye
Anyone who has ever visited the Cairo museum has seen and remembers well the colossal statue of Amenhotep III and his great wife Tiye. The statue is extremely rare in Egyptian art for it depicts Tiye on the same scale as king Amenhotep III. When originally...
Egypt
Questions about the Tiy statue
http://tinyurl.com/d45jz (Forbes.com)
In this item Bryan says that the identification of the statue as Tiy may not be secure, but that it certainly represents "a major queen of Amenhotep III, which would limit the subject of the statue to Tiye, Amenhotep's mother or his daughter".
The article also addresses the fact that the statue was apparently used as building material: "A Johns Hopkins University archaeological team found a life-sized statue believed to represent Queen Tiye buried face down under the floor of the sprawling Karnak Temple site in Luxor, the ancient Egyptian royal city. The statue, which dates to between 1391 and 1352 B.C., was found under the platform of a temple of the goddess Mut, which dates to about 700 B.C. It appears to have been tossed in with rubble used to fill in the floor during that temple's later expansion, said Betsy Bryan, a professor of Egyptian art and archaeology at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. 'The reason for using the statue as construction material, however, remains unknown,' Bryan said in an e-mail from Egypt."
See the above article for the full story
In this item Bryan says that the identification of the statue as Tiy may not be secure, but that it certainly represents "a major queen of Amenhotep III, which would limit the subject of the statue to Tiye, Amenhotep's mother or his daughter".
The article also addresses the fact that the statue was apparently used as building material: "A Johns Hopkins University archaeological team found a life-sized statue believed to represent Queen Tiye buried face down under the floor of the sprawling Karnak Temple site in Luxor, the ancient Egyptian royal city. The statue, which dates to between 1391 and 1352 B.C., was found under the platform of a temple of the goddess Mut, which dates to about 700 B.C. It appears to have been tossed in with rubble used to fill in the floor during that temple's later expansion, said Betsy Bryan, a professor of Egyptian art and archaeology at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. 'The reason for using the statue as construction material, however, remains unknown,' Bryan said in an e-mail from Egypt."
See the above article for the full story
- Jhu 2008 Season At Luxor Now Online
The JHU Gazette Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her team are again sharing their work with the world through an online diary: a digital window into the day-to-day life on an archaeological expedition. This month, visitors to Hopkins in Egypt Today at www.jhu.edu/egypttoday...
- Karnak Excavation Returns To Web For Second Time In 2007
http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2007/29may07/29briefs.html "For the second time this year, Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her crew will be sharing their work with the world via their popular online diary, a digital window into day-to-day life on an archaeological...
- Queen Tiy
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/779/eg9.htmA short article on the Al Ahram website, reproduced in full here, offering a couple of new details: "A beautiful black granite statue of Queen Tiye, mother of the monotheistic king Akhnaten, was unearthed last...
- Egyptian Excavation Returns To The Web
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/509197/ "Newswise — The world is invited to watch Johns Hopkins University archaeologists uncover clues to ancient Egyptian life by visiting “Hopkins in Egypt Today,” a Web site chronicling the university’s...
- Pieces Of Amenhotep And Tiye
Anyone who has ever visited the Cairo museum has seen and remembers well the colossal statue of Amenhotep III and his great wife Tiye. The statue is extremely rare in Egyptian art for it depicts Tiye on the same scale as king Amenhotep III. When originally...