She is one of the most prominent queens in the history of ancient Egypt because of its important role in its time.

She was a priest of the god Min, and the mother of the king's chariots; and her mother, Toya, was a "great harem of Amun" , One of the king's harem, and a supervisor in the palace on the king's clothes.

The King ordered the registration of this marriage on the commemorative jars as follows:
(Amenhotep, let him live, his wife Queen Tiy, to live, her father Yuya, and her mother Toya, ... is the wife of the powerful king whose southern border extends to Karoy and north to Naharin).

The era in which the queen grew up has produced glorious events in the history of ancient Egypt. It originated with the era of Amenhotep III, an era in which the Egyptian empire had its political, cultural and economic fruits. Peace and prosperity prevailed in Egypt after the bitter struggle to liberate it from the Hyksos and secure its borders . When he was destined to become king, he found the wealth of the empire subject to his command, and he himself was the kind who loved luxury and lusted for pleasures.

There is no doubt that the marriage of Amenhotep III of Tiy - which was not the descendant of the royal blood - is considered an outgrowth of the Egyptian tradition that the queen must have been royal. The first is the possibility that there were no legitimate heirs when the king decided to marry; and secondly, perhaps the work of "Toya" (Tiy's mother as a freak in the king's harem) was designed to meet Amenhotep with her daughter, who was able to rob His heart is strong and attractive.

However, it is difficult to know the true cause of this marriage as long as we do not provide the effects, which clearly sheds light on this matter.
The documents of this era witness Amenhotep to satisfy Queen Tiy, to meet her wishes, and to mix her personality with her, even when there was no reason to do so.
Therefore, we saw that it contradicted all the old rules that made sure not to show the wife of the king next to her husband in statues and drawings only on certain occasions, and to distinguish the image of the king in large size for the image of the queen or representation. "Tiy" has drawn statues and drawings on an equal footing with her husband on several occasions, such as the celebration of the "dam" (Thalathini), which was recorded by a group of painters. Perhaps in her monumental statue in the Egyptian Museum next to her husband's statue (both from the city of Habu) to prove the evidence.

Just east of the Habu temple area, on the western bank of Luxor, the king built a beautiful palace for his beloved T-maitre, which is highly artistic and is known as a "mansion".

Tiy has a strong personality and a great respect for her husband. This is evidenced by the royal declaration he made on the occasion of his second marriage to the Haitian princess Gilokheba, the daughter of Shutarna,
(In the tenth year of the reign of Amenhotep, the wife of the great king T and the name of her father Yuya, it happened that His Majesty Jiloukhiba, the daughter of the prince of Mitani, Chutarna,

Thus, on the occasion of his political marriage to a foreign princess, and eight years after his marriage to T, the king did not miss mentioning her name, and even the name of her father and mother, confirming her superiority. A year after his marriage to the Mitani princess, in the eleventh year of his reign, during the period of the Nile flood, when Queen T wanted to dig a lake near the royal palace (in Malakta, on the west bank of Luxor), she was fed by the flood waters At the time of his visit, he ordered a large lake to be dug in a short period, in the low area of the Habu pool, which lies south of the great temple named by this name , And was co-dug by thousands of workers. After sixteen days of continuous work, the water flowed to the lake. The king and the queen made a tour of the royal boat, the lake deepened later, and the trees were planted around it. It was mentioned that the lake was dug on a group of memorial jars.

Not only did the king suffice it, but the titles of any queen in the blood of the king, such as (the daughter of the king), (the sister of the king), and (Lady of the Earth). There is no doubt that these titles are contrary to the fact that "Tiy" is not the daughter of a king, or the sister of a king, so they are only titles of honor and honor granted to her "Amenhotep", indifferent to Egyptian custom at the time.
The letters of "Tal al-Amarna" and other official correspondence indicate that Amenhotep the Third always insisted on asking foreign girls from the kings of Babylon, Ashur and Mitani. It is also said that the king had asked one of the princes of Syria and the prince of Jerusalem "To send him some girls to become his secondary wives. At the request of him, they sent him many girls along with the butcher and gifts; he married a number of them, and the emperors of these kings until the palace was filled with many of them; for example, the young princess Taduchiba (Tadehiba) And the successor to the king "Shotarna", the father of Princess "Gilokhiba" after the death of the latter), which included "Amenhotep III" to his womb at a time when the pyramid was sick and ravaged.

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