Tia (Treasury Manager)

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Tia in hieroglyphics
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Column from the burial chapel of Tia and Tia

Tia was a high ancient Egyptian official under Ramses II. He was the king's clerk and treasurer . Tia was married to the royal sister of the same name , Tia , a sister of Ramses II. She continued to carry the title of singer of Amun by ˁ3-nḫtw , which indicates that both could have lived in the city of Ramses . Tia's father was called Amunwahsu.

Tia is best known from his grave in Saqqara , where he was buried with his wife. This tomb is right next to the tombs of Haremhab and Maya the Treasury . The tomb is built like a temple. It has a pylon , a first courtyard and a second courtyard that was decorated with columns, several cult chapels and a small pyramid at the rear of the building. The building is poorly preserved and was only discovered in 1982, with individual components reaching European collections early on. In particular, the pyramidion of the pyramid reached England as early as 1722. It is lost today and known only from old drawings. Tia was once buried in three coffins. There was an inner, anthropoid, wooden coffin, a medium granite sarcophagus that was also anthropoid, and an outer, box-shaped, wooden coffin. The coffins were only found in numerous, sometimes small fragments.

The names of the Tia were also found on brick stamps near the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut at el-Qurna .

literature

  • Wolfgang Helck : On the administration of the Middle and New Reich , 1958, pp. 408, 516.
  • Jaromír Málek : Two Monuments of the Tias , In: Journal of Egyptian Archeology 60 (1974), pp. 161-167.
  • Geoffrey T. Martin: The Hidden Tombs of Memphis , London 1991, pp. 101-115 ISBN 0-500-39026-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helck: On the administration of the Middle and New Reich , 1958, pp. 408, 516.
  2. ↑ a b Helck: On the administration of the Middle and New Reich , 1958, p. 408.
  3. ↑ Maarten J. Raven, Vincent Verschoor, Marije Vugts, Rene van Walsem: The Memphite Tomb of Horemhab, Comander in Chief of Tutankhamun, V, the Forecourt and the Area South of the Tomb with Some Notes on the Tomb of Tia , Turnhout 2011 , ISBN 978-2503531106 , pp. 166-176
personal data
SURNAME Tia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Egyptian treasurer
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century BC BC or 13th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 13th century BC Chr.