Tuya
Egyptian · mortal · new kingdom · Recorded classification
Mother of Ramesses II. Great Royal Wife of Seti I. Less iconographically developed than the Birth Cycle queens; the divine paternity claim for Ramesses II rests more on royal titulary than on a developed Birth Cycle.
Children
Relations
- lover: AmunMortal mother of Ramesses II; the divine-paternity claim rests on royal titulary rather than a developed Birth Cycle (parental edge already on Ramesses II).K. Kitchen, Pharaoh Triumphant (1982); Ramesside titulary asserting Amun's divine paternity of Ramesses II through his mother Tuya (secondary)
Sources
- existence: KV80 (Valley of the Queens) (primary); Ramesseum statuary (primary)