Kiya

E453339

ancient Egyptian queen historical person

Kiya was a lesser-known wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, often associated with the Amarna period and subject to scholarly debate regarding her origins and role at court.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Kiya canonical	2
Mut-Tuyae	1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Egyptian queen ⓘ historical person ⓘ
associatedWith	Amarna period NERFINISHED ⓘ Aten cult NERFINISHED ⓘ religious reforms of Akhenaten ⓘ
certainty	many aspects of life and identity uncertain ⓘ
confusedWith	Nefertiti (in some theories) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tadukhepa (in some theories) NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	Pharaonic Egypt ⓘ surface form: Ancient Egypt
disappearance	erasure from inscriptions ⓘ name removed from some monuments ⓘ
dynasty	Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfStudy	Egyptology ⓘ
floruit	14th century BCE ⓘ reign of Akhenaten ⓘ
gender	female ⓘ
hasIssue	possible daughter (disputed) ⓘ
hasRole	wife of Akhenaten ⓘ
hasTitle	Beloved of Akhenaten ⓘ Greatly Beloved Wife of the King ⓘ
historicalStatus	poorly documented ⓘ subject of Egyptological debate ⓘ
knownFrom	fragmentary archaeological evidence ⓘ scarce textual references ⓘ
languageOfName	Egyptian ⓘ
mentionedIn	inscriptions at Amarna ⓘ royal monuments of Akhenaten ⓘ
notableFor	being a lesser-known consort of Akhenaten ⓘ her disappearance from the historical record ⓘ scholarly debate about her origins ⓘ scholarly debate about her role at court ⓘ
possibleFate	death before end of Akhenaten’s reign (hypothesized) ⓘ fall from favor (hypothesized) ⓘ
possibleOrigin	Mitanni origin (hypothesized) ⓘ Syrian origin (hypothesized) ⓘ foreign origin (hypothesized) ⓘ
relatedEvent	Amarna artistic and religious revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	Atenism (court religion) NERFINISHED ⓘ
residence	Akhetaten NERFINISHED ⓘ Amarna NERFINISHED ⓘ
spouse	Akhenaten NERFINISHED ⓘ
spouseDynasty	Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ
spouseOfTitle	Pharaoh of Egypt ⓘ
timePeriod	Late Bronze Age NERFINISHED ⓘ New Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Akhenaten → spouse → Kiya ⓘ

Kiya Tomlin → hasGivenName → Kiya ⓘ

Tuya → hasNameVariant → Kiya ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mut-Tuyae