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The hieroglyphic
name of Kiya |
Kiya was a royal woman of the
Eighteenth Dynasty, maybe a Mitanni princess. She was a younger check of
Akhenaten (1353-1335 B.C.E.). There is some indication that her origins were Mitanni and that she was named Tadukhipa, being the girl of King Tushratta. It is as well achievable that she was a noblewoman from
Akhmin. Kiya was taken in high interpret in Akhenatens ninth regnal year, but she was outside of favor by regnal year 11. She is showed as accepting borne 2 sons and a daughter by Akhenaten, and she was represented on monuments in
Amarna.
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| The statue of Kiya |
After regnal year 11, however, she is no longer visible, and her name was removed from some reliefs. Kiya's coffin, gilded and inlaid in the Rishi Pattern, was found in Queen Tiye's (1) tomb, apparently accepting answered as a resting place for the continues of
Smenkhare (1335-1333 B.C.E.). Canopic lids in Tiyes tomb had portrayals of Kiya. Her mummy has not been identified.
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