Image code: 20780

Statue of Thutmosi IV with his mother Tia

The two royal figures, of which the male one is slightly taller, sit on a seat with a wide arched back, devoid of inscriptions. Thutmosi IV's left arm and Tia's right arm cross posteriorly, their hands resting with open palms on each other's shoulder. The free hands rest on the thighs. the ruler for the first time wears a wig and not a crown, he has a uraeus that snakes with two volutes on the top, he wears the shendyt skirt with a belt decorated with concentric rhomboid designs and closed by a buckle engraved with his name, between his legs is a bull's tail, his feet rest on nine arches allegorically recalling all the enemies of Egypt; the queen wears a wig with engraved braids, covered with vulture robes (an attribute of the mother of the heir to the throne) and adorned with the uraeus, her tunic is adorned with two rosettes, she has a usekh necklace and bracelets.

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