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Yuya (Personal Name)

Preferred form: Yuya
Used for/see from:
  • Iouiya

Osman, A. Stranger in the Valley of the Kings, 1988, c1987: CIP galley (Yuya; tomb of Yuya; Yuya's mummy) introd. (author feels that Joseph, Son of Jacob, and Yuya were the same person)

The tomb of Iouiya and Touiyou, 2000: foreword (Yuya (Iouiya))

The mummy-makers of Egypt, 2015: ECIP galley (Lord Yuya, father of Queen Tiye; titles include Father to the King, the King's Lieutenant of Chariotry, Master of Horses, Priest of the God Min, Overseer of the Sacred Oxen of Min, The Lord of Akhmim, The Wise One, Favorite of the King)

Who's Who in Ancient Egypt, Routledge. Credo Reference online, 23 Feb 2015 (Yuya and Tuyu (C. 1390 - 1352 BC) Nobles, Eighteenth Dynasty, New; couple were the grandparents of Amenhotep IV-Akhenaten by virtue of their daughter Tiy having been married to Amenhotep III and borne his successor; Yuya came from Akhmim, where he had estates and was a priest of the principal divinity, Min; he was Master of the Horse and hence held important military responsibilities; title 'Father of the God' was conferred on Yuya; Yuya and Tuyu were buried together in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, KV 46)

Ency. Brit. macro., 1983, v. 19; Collier's ency., 1973, v. 23; Collier's yr. bk., 1987; Ency. Amer., 1975, v. 29; Ency. Amer yr. bk., 1987.

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