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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nFor me, the most interesting part of an artifact is always going to be the inscription \ud80c\udf98\ud80c\udd71\ud80c\udf96 on the object! Let\u2019s read some hieroglyphs \ud80c\udeb9\ud80c\udf03\ud80c\udfea!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud80c\udeb9\ud80c\udd24 – Perfect God <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud80c\udf9f\ud80c\uddff\ud80c\uddff – Lord of the Two Lands<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud80c\uddf3\ud80c\udc67\ud80c\udfa0 – Nebmaatra (Amenhotep III\u2019s Throne Name)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud80c\uddd3\ud80c\ude1e\ud80c\udfcf – King\u2019s Great Wife<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud80c\udf58\ud80c\uddcc\ud80c\udfed\ud80c\udc57 – Tiye<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud80c\udef9\ud80c\udf58 – May She Live!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of you may notice when looking at this inscription that Queen Tiye\u2019s \ud80c\udf58\ud80c\uddcc\ud80c\udfed\ud80c\udc57 name \ud80c\udc8b\ud80c\ude16 is in a cartouche too! Sometimes, the names \ud80c\udc8b\ud80c\ude16\ud80c\udfe6 of the queens who held the title of the \u201cKing\u2019s Great Wife \ud80c\uddd3\ud80c\ude1e\ud80c\udfcf\u201d also appeared in cartouches to demonstrate their importance to the pharaoh \ud80c\ude50\ud80c\ude7b. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tiye \ud80c\udf58\ud80c\uddcc\ud80c\udfed\ud80c\udc57 was actually the mother \ud80c\udd50\ud80c\udfcf\ud80c\udc50 of Akhenaten \ud80c\uddcb\ud80c\udfcf\ud80c\ude16\ud80c\uddf3\ud80c\udd5c\ud80d\udc0d\ud80c\ude16 and Tutankhamun\u2019s \ud80c\uddcb\ud80c\udfe0\ud80c\ude16\ud80c\udfcf\ud80c\udd71\ud80c\udfcf\ud80c\udef9\ud80c\udefe\ud80c\ude7a\ud80c\uddd3 grandmother! Tiye \ud80c\udf58\ud80c\uddcc\ud80c\udfed\ud80c\udc57 and Amenhotep III \ud80c\uddf3\ud80c\udc67\ud80c\udfa0 seem to have been married by the second year of his reign. The reign of Amenhotep III \ud80c\uddf3\ud80c\udc67\ud80c\udfa0 was an extremely prosperous and successful one, because it was at this time that Egypt \ud80c\udd8e\ud80c\udd53\ud80c\udfcf\ud80c\ude96 had reached its peak artistic and international power (even though Amenhotep III \ud80c\uddf3\ud80c\udc67\ud80c\udfa0 only participated in one military battle himself). His success had been set up by the works of the previous pharaohs \ud80c\ude50\ud80c\ude7b\ud80c\udfe6, such as Hatshepsut \ud80c\uddcb\ud80c\udfe0\ud80c\ude16\ud80c\udfb9\ud80c\udfcf\ud80c\udd02\ud80c\udfcf\ud80c\udc3c\ud80c\udfea and Thutmosis III \ud80c\uddf3\ud80c\udfe0\ud80c\udda3 and then Amenhotep III\u2019s \ud80c\uddf3\ud80c\udc67\ud80c\udfa0 own father, Thutmosis IV \ud80c\uddf3\ud80c\udfe0\ud80c\udda3\ud80c\udffc.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Let\u2019s read some hieroglyphs \ud80c\udeb9\ud80c\udf03\ud80c\udfea! Today \ud80c\udfc7\ud80c\uddcb\ud80c\ude16\ud80c\uddf3 we are going to look at a Kohl \ud80c\udd93\ud80c\udc9d\ud80c\udf20\ud80c\udcc0 Tube! Kohl \ud80c\udd93\ud80c\udc9d\ud80c\udf20\ud80c\udcc0 was a type of eye paint (makeup) that was very popular amongst the ancient Egyptians! This tube would have contained the kohl \ud80c\udd93\ud80c\udc9d\ud80c\udf20\ud80c\udcc0, and then a wooden \ud80c\uddb1\ud80c\udfcf\ud80c\udffa or faience \ud80c\udee3\ud80c\ude16\ud80c\udfcf\ud80c\udff8\ud80c\udffc stick would have been used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[82,16,19,18,17],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hieroglyphs","tag-amenhotep-iii","tag-artifact","tag-brooklyn-museum","tag-hieroglyph-lessons","tag-hieroglyphs"],"yoast_head":"\n