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Pendant of queen Tiye

General Information

Openwork representation of Queen Tiye as a winged sphinx with human arms holding a cartouche with her husband's prenomen Neb-Maat-Re.

Number	26.7.1342
Storing Place	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York - United States of America
Material	Carnelian
Type	Pendant
Type of Script	Hieroglyphic
Discovery Place	Thebes - Luxor - Egypt
Width	6.5 cm
Height	4.2 cm
Historical Period	The Eighteenth Dynasty – The New Kingdom

Inscriptions on the Monument

Transliteration

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Nb mAat ra

Translation

Neb-Maat-Re

Scientific Publishing

C. Aldred, Jewels of the Pharaohs : Egyptian jewellery of the Dynastic Period, (London, 1971), 43.