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Mutemwiya (also written as Mutemwia, Mutemuya or Mutemweya) was a minor wife of Thutmose IV, a pharaoh of Egypt, in the Eighteenth Dynasty and the mother of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. Mutemwiya's name means "Mut in the divine bark". == Biography == Mutemwiya is not attested during the reign of her husband Thutmose IV. She would have been overshadowed at court by first queen Nefertari, and later by queen Iaret. Mutemwiya is only shown on the monuments of her son Amenhotep III.〔 While she occasionally was identified by some researchers as a daughter of King Artatama I of Mitanni, no evidence proves that she is the same person, and nothing about her own background is known.〔Betsy Bryan, The Reign of Thutmose IV, (Johns Hopkins University Press: 1991), p.119〕 There seemed to be evidence that she was not a daughter of Artatama,〔Nicolas Grimal, A History of Ancient Egypt, (Blackwell Books: 1992), p.221〕 but this theory has been discarded.〔O'Connor, David and Cline, Eric H. Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign University of Michigan Press. 2001 ISBN 978-0-472-08833-1〕 Cyril Aldred has suggested that Mutemwiya be a sister of Yuya.〔 He argues that since Mutemwiya was present during the early years of her son's reign, she might have engineered the marriage between Tiye and the young king to connect her family with royalty. However, this theory is poorly supported by texts or archaeological finds. Mutemwiya held many titles including God’s Wife ''(Hm.t-nTr)'', Lady of The Two Lands ''(nb.t-tAwy)'', Great King’s Wife, his beloved ''(Hm.t-nsw-wr.t mry.t=f)'', noblewoman, countess ''(r.t-pa.t)'', Great of Praises ''(wr.t-Hsw.t)'', Sweet of Love ''(bnr.t-mrw.t)'', Mistress of Upper and Lower Egypt ''(Hnw.t-rsy-mHw)'', and God's Mother ''(mwt-nTr)''.〔Grajetzki, Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Golden House Publications, London, 2005, ISBN 978-0-9547218-9-3〕 The titles king's mother and god's mother amount to the same thing since the god in question was the reigning king, Amenhotep III.〔Betsy Bryan, Chapter 6: "Thutmose IV Abroad and at Home" in 'The Reign of Thutmose IV,' pp.113-118〕 All of these titles, including that of Great Royal Wife, were used only after her husband's death, during her son's reign. At the time of Amenhotep III’s accession to the throne she gained prominence as the new pharaoh's mother.〔Tyldesley, Joyce. Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2006, p. 114. ISBN 0-500-05145-3〕 Mutemwiya is shown in the Luxor temple, in scenes depicting the divine birth of her son Amenhotep III. The scenes resemble (and in some cases copy) scenes of the divine birth of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari. Hatshepsut had used the birth story to reinforce her claims to the throne. Amenhotep was the son of a ruling Pharaoh and it seems that the birth scene is used to stress the semi-divine nature of Amenhotep III. In a key scene Mutemwiya is shown seated on a bed receiving the god Amun who had taken the form of her husband Thutmosis IV. They are in the presence of the goddesses Selket and Neith. The scenes show Amenhotep III to be the result of the union of his mother with the god Amun himself.〔〔 A pregnant queen Mutemwiya as later shown being led to the birthing room by Isis and Khnum.〔Aldred, Cyril, Akhenaten: King of Egypt ,Thames and Hudson, 1991 (paperback). ISBN 0-500-27621-8〕 A partial granite statue representing Mutemwiya was found in Karnak and it now is in the collection of the British Museum. The statue takes the form of a rebus showing the goddess Mut seated in a barque, thereby forming her name. Mutemwiya is named in the inscription on the side of the barque.〔〔Quirke, Stephen and Spencer, Jeffrey, The British Museum Book of Ancient Egypt, Thames and Hudson, 1992, p 78. ISBN 0-500-27902-0〕 Along with her daughter-in-law, Tiye, she also is shown on the Colossi of Memnon erected by Amenhotep III.〔Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson (2004), pp. 132-141.〕〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mutemwiya」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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