THE TOMB OF THREE FOREIGN WIVES OF TUTHMOSIS III

Christine Lilyquist

With Contributions by James E. Hoch and A. J. Peden

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK Yale University Press, New Haven and London

This publication is made possible by The Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund, in memory of the de Groot and Hawley families

Cover image: the hieroglyphic names of foreign wives Manuwai, Maruta, and Manhata on their silver libation jars Frontispiece: a view toward the crevice where tomb Wady Di is located;

See pp. 25, 46, 52f, y8f

Endpiece: view from the head of Wady D toward a pyramid-shaped peak, the Nile Valley beyond; see p. 52

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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-PubHcation Data Lilyquist, Christine.

The tomb of three foreign wives of Tuthmosis III /

Christine Lilyquist, with contributions by James E. Hoch and A. J. Peden. p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1-58839-046-2 (he : alk. paper)— ISBN 0-300-10121-X (Yale University Press)

I. Tombs—Egypt—Thebes (Extinct city) 2. Art objects, Egyptian. 3. Thutmose III, King of Egypt—Family. I. Hoch, James E., 1954— II. Peden, A. J. III. Title.

DT73.T3L54 2003 932'.oi4’o82—dc2i

2003044539

Typeset by Aardvark Type, Hartford, Connecticut Printed by The Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont

In appreciation of the work of

Howard Carter (1874-1939) Herbert Eustis Winlock (1884-1950) Mary Elizabeth Thomas (1907-86) and the CEDAE and IGN (1965—78)