Relief Depicting the Nurse Tia

Relief Depicting the Nurse Tia

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The block evokes a scene of the king before a crowd. On the right, an elegant hand dangles alongside the thigh of a royal male, surely Akhenaten. Behind him is a woman labeled "the nurse of the king’s daughter Ankhesenpaaten, Tia." Tia faces to the right and holds small loaves to cajole the restive young princess, whose garment is just visible on the far right where she stands for the court ceremony.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.