Kiya

Kiya is a queen of Egypt of. It is the wife of the Pharaon Amenhotep {{IV}} (or Akhénaton). It is of origin Mitanni enne and according to certain Egyptologists, it does perhaps only one, with another wife of Amenhotep V, that his/her father Amenhotep {{III}} had also married, which names Tadukhepa (or Taduhepa). Tadukhepa was the girl of the emperor of the Mitanni Tushratta. This idea is consolidated by the fact that the name of Kiya is known only by the documents of Amarna.

One knows few things of Kiya, if it is not that it conquered the title of Très Aimee . It may be that the Pharaon made set up a large building, the Palate of North, in its honor. Certain historians think that its importance comes owing to the fact that it perhaps gave rise to a male heir, Toutânkhamon, and that it would have died in layer. At all events, one loses the trace of Kiya about year XI/XII (one finds also XV/XVI) reign of Amenhotep V.

The name of Mérytaton, oldest daughter of the Pharaon, hides that of this wife on stone fragments discovered with the Palate of North. One can imagine that Néfertiti, jealous, got rid of it. After the disappearance of its rival, Néfertiti reaches new functions, perhaps that of corégente with Akhénaton. The collection of beautiful alabaster vases canopes allotted to Kiya, found in the tomb KV55, gives us the best possible representation of the wife of Akhénaton. It would be suggested on this site that Kiya, the second wife would be, Tadukhepa the mitanienne , girl of Tušratta which was the woman of Aménophis {{III}} would have become the wife of Amenhotep V-Akhénaton under the name of Kiya (known name only by the documents of Amarna). It is for it that the field had been designed says “Maru-Aton” to Karnak, but all its inscriptions were erased and replaced by those of Mérytaton.

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