Face from a Composite Statue, probably Queen Tiye

A quartzite face of about 1386–1330 BCE at New York's Metropolitan Museum probably represents Queen Tiye. It once fitted a statue assembled from different materials. The red stone initially suggested a male sitter, Akhenaten, but the three-part wig and resemblance to Tiye's other images support the revised identification. The handling of the face relates to the sculptor Thutmose's Amarna workshop.