1 magg 1401 anni a. C. - Amenhotep III, Tiye's husband

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Amenhotep III, Amenhotep the Magnificent or Amenhotep the Great, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty and ruled Egypt from June 1386 to 1349 BC, (or from June 1388 BC to December 1351 BC/1350 BC) after his father Thutmose IV died.

Amenhotep claimed that his true father was the god Amun, who had taken the form of Thutmose IV to father a child with Mutemwiya. He later commissioned the depiction of his divine birth to be displayed at Luxor Temple.

Amenhotep probably became pharaoh when he was between the ages of 6 and 12. While it is likely that a regent would have ruled until he came of age, none is attested to in the surviving records.

In Regnal Year 2, Amenhotep married Tiye, the daughter of Yuya and Thuya. Tiye was Great Royal Wife throughout Amenhotep's reign. Many commemorative scarabs were commissioned and distributed during Amenhotep's reign. On the "marriage scarabs," Amenhotep affirmed his divine power and the legitimacy of his wife.

In Regnal Year Five, he led a victorious campaign against a rebellion in Kush. This victory was commemorated by three rock-carved stelae found near Aswan and Saï in Nubia. The official account of Amenhotep's military victory emphasizes his martial prowess with the period-typical hyperbole.

In Regnal Year 10, Amenhotep married Gilukhepa, the daughter of Shuttarna II of Mitanni.

In Regnal Year 11, construction began for the Malkata palace.

In Regnal Year 11, Amenhotep commanded the construction of an artificial lake at Tiye's hometown of Djakaru. He then celebrated a Festival of Opening the Lake in the third month of Inundation, day sixteen, and rowed the royal barge Aten-tjehen on the lake. This event was commemorated on at least eleven commemorative scarabs.

In Regnal Year 29, the king moves to the Malkata palace permanently

In Regnal Year 30, Jar-label inscriptions indicate that Sitamun was elevated to the status of Great Royal Wife

In, or around Regnal Year 36 he married Tadukhepa, daughter of Tushratta of Mitanni.

Other wives, whose names are unknown, included:
a daughter of Kurigalzu, king of Babylon
a daughter of Kadashman-Enlil, king of Babylon
a daughter of Tarhundaradu, ruler of Arzawa
a daughter of the ruler of Ammia (modern-day Syria).

In his last Regnal Year 38 or 39, he married his daughter Iset

Amenhotep's greatest attested regnal date is Year 38, which appears on wine jar-label dockets from Malkata. He may have lived briefly into an unrecorded Year 39 and died before the wine harvest of that year.

Reliefs from the wall of the temple of Soleb in Nubia and scenes from the Theban tomb of Kheruef, Steward of the King's Great Wife, Tiye, depict Amenhotep as a visibly weak and sick figure. It's believed that in his final years he was obese, suffered from arthritis and was probably in constant pain stemming from worn and cavity-pitted teeth.

Amenhotep died in the 38th or 39th year of his reign, between 40 and 50 years of age. Queen Tiye survived him by at least 12 years.

Foreign leaders communicated their grief at the pharaoh's death, with Tushratta saying, "...When I heard that my brother Nimmureya had gone to his fate, on that day I sat down and wept. On that day I took no food, I took no water...."

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