Queen Tiye

18th Dynasty Egypt

(left) Housed at the Louvre Museum

Tiye's modius crown and double plumes link her with the solar cult. She wears a stunning vulture feather dress a reminder of Mut, wife of Amun.

Queen Tiye as a winged sphinx, her plant-topped headdress derived from that worn by Tefnut, one of the twin children born to the god of creation, Atum. She is holding her husband's cartouche - decorates a carnelian bracelet plaque housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York