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Lady Mi - Brooklyn Museum Collection

Inventory Number: 47.120.3 New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1390-1353 B.C.E. Location Information: Medinet Gurob, Egypt

Description:

One of the finest wooden sculptures to survive from antiquity, this exquisitely carved figure of Lady Mi shows the elaborate wig and huge gold earrings worn by the great women of King Amunhotep’s court. Both Amunhotep III and Queen Tiye allowed themselves to be represented as mature—rather than eternally youthful—individuals. Faithful courtiers followed the royal lead. The carver of this figure indicated the breasts and belly of an older woman beneath the gossamer linen of the dress.

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Menna's Daughter Offering to her Parents, Tomb of Menna - Met Museum Collection

Note: This is a modern reproduction of an original Inventory Number: 30.4.46 Original Dating: New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1400–1352 B.C. Location Information: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes

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Sitting Image of Merit - Rijkmuseum Von Oudheden Collection

Inventory Number: AST 2 New Kingdom ; 18th Dynasty; Horemheb 1319-1307 BC. Location Information: Egypt, Saqqara, tomb of Maya

Description:

Merit is Maya's wife. Like many notable ladies, she bears the title 'singer of Amon'. In her hands she holds a menat: a necklace of many strings of beads with a figure of the goddess Hathor as a counterbalance in the neck. This is used as a rattle to accompany temple chants.

Additional Image Source: Wikimedia Commons, @ user Sailko

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Double Seating Image of Maya and Merit - Rijksmuseum Von Oudheden Collection

Photo Focus: Merit Inventory Number: AST 3 New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1319 BC. Location Information: Egypt, Saqqara, tomb of Maya

Description:

Maya was one of the great men in the Egypt of Tutankhamun and Horemheb, but his career may have started earlier: during the reign of the famous pharaoh Akhenaten. Under Tutankhamun and Horemheb he was a kind of minister of finance and was in charge of all major construction projects in the country. The construction and maintenance of the important cemeteries also fell under his responsibility, especially those of the pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings.

Additional Image Source: Maya and Merit, Rob Koopman @ Flic

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Boats with Mourners and Provisions, Tomb of Neferhotep - Met Museum Collection

Note: This is a modern copy of an original Inventory Number: 31.6.6 Original Dating: New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1327–1323 B.C. Location Information: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Tomb of Neferhotep (TT 49)

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Nubian Tribute Presented to the King, Tomb of Huy - Met Museum Collection

Photo Focus: Relatives and Friends of the Viceroy (The Women) Note: This is a modern copy of an original Inventory Number: 30.4.21 Original Dating: New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1353–1327 B.C. Location Information: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes

Description:

On the far left, servants are striding out from the impressive entrance of Huy’s house carrying a festive branch, the house portico of which has Tutankhamun’s cartouches stamped on it. Caption: "Going out by the [household?] of the King’s son in order to welcome him on his return having received the favours of the Lord of the Two Lands. The house of the King’s son of Kush, the royal scribe, Amenhotep, repeating life". Then come three women and, before them, men, arms raised or prostrate, pay tribute to the Viceroy.

Source: Osiris.net TT40 Tomb of Huy Entry

Part of a tribute scene in the tomb of Huy, viceroy of nubia under Tutankhamun. At the upper right are northern Nubians of high rank, and a princess in an ox drawn chariot. Walking behind are warriors, their submission made certain by the sheyba (taming stick) attached to their wrists and necks. Women and children follow. Below are southern Nubians and their retainers.

Source: Egyptian Wall Paintings: The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Collection of Facsimiles, By Charles Kyrle Wilkinson, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) · 1983