Tausret: Queen, Regent, Ruler, Rebel

Frederick Arthur Bridgman. Procession in honour of Isis. 1902.

As Queen• First stage of KV14• Work begins Year 2 of Seti II

• O. Cairo J 72452:• “Year 2; first month of Winter, day 8, the day when the agent… came with a dispatch [to

the Vizier?] saying ‘Start upon the tomb of the King’s Great Wife Twosre’ ” a list of workmen assigned follows

• Only queen of Dyn 19 buried in KV• Small scale version of a king’s tomb• Royal lineage?• “King’s Great Wife”• “God’ Wife of Amun”

As Regent• Statue holding Siptah > Year 2• Temple of Amada > Year 2 • Tausret with sistra• Opposite Chancellor Bay

• Abu Simbel• Tausret and Bay adore Siptah’s cartouches

• Expansion of KV14• Mortuary temple at Thebes – mud brick

As Regent• Statue holding Siptah > Year 2• Temple of Amada > Year 2

• Tausret with sistra• Opposite Chancellor Bay

• Abu Simbel• Tausret and Bay adore Siptah’s

cartouches

• Expansion of KV14• Mortuary temple at Thebes –

mud brick

As Regent• Statue holding Siptah > Year 2• Temple of Amada > Year 2

• Tausret with sistra• Opposite Chancellor Bay

• Abu Simbel• Tausret and Bay adore Siptah’s

cartouches

• Expansion of KV14• Mortuary temple at Thebes –

mud brick

As Regent• Statue holding Siptah > Year 2• Temple of Amada > Year 2 • Tausret with sistra• Opposite Chancellor Bay

• Abu Simbel• Tausret and Bay adore Siptah’s cartouches

• Expansion of KV14• Mortuary temple at Thebes – mud brick

Bay is dead!• O. DeM 886 (= O. IFAO

inv. 1864)• “Year 5 III Shemu the

27th. On this day, the scribe of the tomb Paser came announcing 'Pharaoh L.P.H., has killed the great enemy Bay.’ ”

As Ruler• Headless statue from Medinet Nasr• With titulary: “Strong-bull-beloved-of-Maat, King of Upper and

Lower Egypt who is installed by Re, Lord of the Two Lands, Daughter-of-Re-beloved-of-Amun, Son of Re, Lord of Appearances like Atum, Daughter of Re-beloved-of-Amun, Tausret-chosen-of-Mut, beloved of Hathor-lady-of-the-red-mountain”

• Inscribed material from W Asia• 2x faiance jars• Titles: “Lady of Strength. Lady of Action. Who Subdues Foreign

lands””

• Inscription with offering for royal ka from Memphis• Naophorous statue of High Priest of Ptah Iyri• Mortuary temple at Thebes - stone• Sarcophagus (found KV13)• Jewellery cache (found KV56)• Manaetho Aegypica 2: “Thuoris, by Homer called the active and

gallant Polybus, in whose time Troy was taken, reigned for 7 years.”

As Ruler• Headless statue from Medinet Nasr• With titulatary: “Strong-bull-beloved-of-Maat, King

of Upper and Lower Egypt who is installed by Re, Lord of the Two Lands, Daughter-of-Re-beloved-of-Amun, Son of Re, Lord of Appearances like Atum, Daughter of Re-beloved-of-Amun, Tausret-chosen-of-Mut, beloved of Hathor-lady-of-the-red-mountain”

• Inscribed material from W Asia• 3x faience jars• Titles: “Lady of Strength. Lady of Action. Who Subdues

Foreign lands””

• Inscription with offering for royal ka from Memphis• Naophorous statue of High Priest of Ptah Iyri• Mortuary temple at Thebes - stone• Sarcophagus (found KV13)

As Ruler• Headless statue from Medinet Nasr• With titulary: “Strong-bull-beloved-of-Maat, King of Upper and

Lower Egypt who is installed by Re, Lord of the Two Lands, Daughter-of-Re-beloved-of-Amun, Son of Re, Lord of Appearances like Atum, Daughter of Re-beloved-of-Amun, Tausret-chosen-of-Mut, beloved of Hathor-lady-of-the-red-mountain”

• Inscribed material from W Asia• 2x faience jars• Titles: “Lady of Strength. Lady of Action. Who Subdues Foreign

lands””

• Inscription with offering for royal ka from Memphis• Naophorous statue of High Priest of Ptah Iyri• Mortuary temple at Thebes - stone• Sarcophagus (found KV13)• Jewellery cache (found KV56)• Manaetho Aegypica 2: “Thuoris, by Homer called the active and

gallant Polybus, in whose time Troy was taken, reigned for 7 years.”

As Ruler• Headless statue from Medinet Nasr• With titulary: “Strong-bull-beloved-of-Maat, King of Upper and

Lower Egypt who is installed by Re, Lord of the Two Lands, Daughter-of-Re-beloved-of-Amun, Son of Re, Lord of Appearances like Atum, Daughter of Re-beloved-of-Amun, Tausret-chosen-of-Mut, beloved of Hathor-lady-of-the-red-mountain”

• Inscribed material from W Asia• 2x faiance jars• Titles: “Lady of Strength. Lady of Action. Who Subdues Foreign

lands””• Inscription with offering for royal ka from Memphis• Naophorous statue of High Priest of Ptah Iyri• Mortuary temple at Thebes - stone• Sarcophagus (found KV13)• Jewellery cache (found KV56)• Manaetho Aegypica 2: “Thuoris, by Homer called the active and

gallant Polybus, in whose time Troy was taken, reigned for 7 years.”

As Ruler• Headless statue from Medinet Nasr• With titulatary: “Strong-bull-beloved-of-Maat, King

of Upper and Lower Egypt who is installed by Re, Lord of the Two Lands, Daughter-of-Re-beloved-of-Amun, Son of Re, Lord of Appearances like Atum, Daughter of Re-beloved-of-Amun, Tausret-chosen-of-Mut, beloved of Hathor-lady-of-the-red-mountain”

• Inscribed material from W Asia• 3x faience jars• Titles: “Lady of Strength. Lady of Action. Who Subdues

Foreign lands””

• Inscription with offering for royal ka from Memphis• Naophorous statue of High Priest of Ptah Iyri• Mortuary temple at Thebes - stone• Sarcophagus (found KV13)

As Ruler• Final stage of KV14• Jewellery cache (found KV56)• Manaetho Aegypica 2: “Thuoris, by

Homer called the active and gallant Polybus, in whose time Troy was taken, reigned for 7 years.”• As warrior? CG 25125• Reburial KV35

As Ruler• Final stage of KV14• Jewellery cache (found KV56)• Manaetho Aegypica 2: “Thuoris,

by Homer called the active and gallant Polybus, in whose time Troy was taken, reigned for 7 years.”• As warrior? CG 25125• Reburial KV35?

As Ruler• Final stage of KV14• Jewellery cache (found KV56)• Manaetho Aegypica 2: “Thuoris, by

Homer called the active and gallant Polybus, in whose time Troy was taken, reigned for 7 years.”• As warrior? CG 25125• Reburial KV35?

As Ruler 2• Final stage of KV14• Jewellery cache (found KV56)• Manaetho Aegypica 2: “Thuoris, by

Homer called the active and gallant Polybus, in whose time Troy was taken, reigned for 7 years.”• As warrior? CG 25125• Reburial KV35?

CG 25125 – Cairo Museum. Found in KV 9.

As Ruler 2• Final stage of KV14• Jewellery cache (found KV56)• Manaetho Aegypica 2: “Thuoris, by

Homer called the active and gallant Polybus, in whose time Troy was taken, reigned for 7 years.”• As warrior? CG 25125• Reburial KV35?

Unknown Women D.

As Rebel• Systematic erasure/recurving

in KV14 and sarcophagus• Not mentioned in Kings lists• Erotic graffiti/papyri?

As Rebel• Systematic erasure/recurving in

KV14• Not mentioned in Kings lists• Erotic graffiti/papyri?

Graffiti from Deir el-Bahri.

Scenes from Turin Papyrus from Deir el-Medina.