47 Portrait Head of Queen Tiye

Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker provide a description, historical perspective, and analysis of Portrait Head of Queen Tiye with a Crown of Two Feathers.

Portrait Head of Queen Tiye with a Crown of Two Feathers, c. 1355 BCE, Amarna Period, eighteenth dynasty, New Kingdom, Egypt, yew wood, lapis lazuli, silver, gold, faience, 22.5 cm high (Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection at the Neues Museum, Berlin)