Taemwadjsy was an Ancient Egyptian woman living at the end of the 18th Dynasty. Taemwadjsy is known from a high number of sources and was ''great one of the harem of Amun'', a title only reserved for very important women, often family members of the royal house. A vessel found in the tomb

KV46 Tomb KV46 in the Valley of the Kings is the tomb of the ancient Egyptian noble Yuya and his wife Thuya, the parents of Queen Tiye and Anen. It was discovered in February 1905 by Chief Inspector of Antiquities James E. Quibell, excavating under th ...

bears her name and title. KV46 is the tomb of

Yuya Yuya (sometimes Iouiya, or Yuaa, also known as Yaa, Ya, Yiya, Yayi, Yu, Yuyu, Yaya, Yiay, Yia, and Yuy) was a powerful ancient Egyptian courtier during the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt (circa 1390 BC). He was married to Thuya, an Egyptian nobl ...

and

Thuya Thuya (sometimes transliterated as Touiyou, Thuiu, Tuya, Tjuyu or Thuyu) was an Egyptian noblewoman and the mother of queen Tiye, and the wife of Yuya. She is the grandmother of Akhenaten, and great grandmother of Tutankhamun. Biography Thu ...

who are the parents of queen

Tiye Tiye (c. 1398 BC – 1338 BC, also spelled Tye, Taia, Tiy and Tiyi) was the daughter of Yuya and Thuya. She became the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III. She was the mother of Akhenaten and grandmother of Tutankhamun. I ...

. This might indicate that Taemwadjsy was related to the king's family. She might have been a daughter of Yuya and Thuya or even a daughter of queen Tiye. Otherwise, Taemwadjsy is best known as the wife of

Amenhotep called Huy Amenhotep called Huy was Viceroy of Kush under Tutankhamen. He was the successor of Tuthmosis, who served under Akhenaten. He would later be succeeded by Paser I. Huy was the son of a lady named Werner. His father is not known. Huy was married ...

, who served as

Viceroy of Kush The former Kingdom of Kerma in Nubia, was a province of ancient Egypt from the 16th century BCE to eleventh century BCE. During this period, the polity was ruled by a viceroy who reported directly to the Egyptian Pharaoh. It is believed that the ...

under king

Tutankhamun Tutankhamun (, egy, twt-ꜥnḫ-jmn), Egyptological pronunciation Tutankhamen () (), sometimes referred to as King Tut, was an Egyptian pharaoh who was the last of his royal family to rule during the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty (ruled ...

. Together they appear on several monuments found in Lower Nubia, although her name is not preserved in the tomb of Amenhotep called Huy. She appears also on a statue of Khaemwaset, who was the brother of the commader

Seti The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a collective term for scientific searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life, for example, monitoring electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other p ...

, who was the father of king

Ramesses I Menpehtyre Ramesses I (or Ramses) was the founding pharaoh of ancient Egypt's 19th Dynasty. The dates for his short reign are not completely known but the time-line of late 1292–1290 BC is frequently cited as well as 1295–1294 BC. While Ra ...

. However, it is not certain that the Khaemwaset, brother of Seti is identical with

Khaemwaset Prince Khaemweset (also translated as Khamwese, Khaemwese or Khaemwaset or Setne Khamwas) was the fourth son of Ramesses II and the second son by his queen Isetnofret. His contributions to Egyptian society were remembered for centuries after his d ...

, husband of Taemwadjsy and known from Nubian sources. Perhaps she married Khaemwaset after the death of Amenhotep called Huy. Although it is also possible that she married Khaemwaset first and married Amenhotep called Huy after the first had died. There are two sons known from her marriage with Amenhotep called Huyː Tjuri, ''Charioteer of the King, King’s Envoy, First Stable Master'' and

Paser A PASER (an acronym from ''Particle Acceleration by Stimulated Emission of Radiation)'' is a device that accelerates a coherent beam of electrons. This process was demonstrated for the first time in 2006 at the Brookhaven National Lab by a team o ...

, ''Overseer of Horse, Stable Master, Fanbearer.''. Paser followed his father in the position of a viceroy of Kush.Nozomu Kawaiː ''The Administrators and Notables in Nubia under Tutankhamun'', in Richard Jasnow and Kathlyn M. Cooney (eds), ''Joyful in Thebes: Egyptological Studies in Honor of Betsy M. Bryan'', Atlanta: Lockwood, 2015, , 313-314

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