• General Notes

  Yuya (sometimes transliterated as Iouiya) also known as Yaa, Ya, Yiya, Yayi, Yu, Yuyu, Yaya, Yiay, Yia, Yuy[1], and possibly Joseph[2] and Yussef,[3] was a powerful Egyptian courtier of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt (circa 1400 BCE). Scholars have narrowed the date of his birth to between 1453 and 1438 BCE and that of his death to between 1393 and 1378 BCE.[4]
  Yuya served as a key adviser for Pharaoh Amenhotep III (father of Akhenaten), who married Yuya's daughter Tiye.[5] Amenhotep III probably knew Yuya and his family well, as Yuya was likely appointed to his position under Amenhotep's father, Thutmose IV.[6] Yuya is the only person in Egyptian history known to have been granted the title "Beloved Father of Pharaoh" other than Joseph.
  
  Yuya married Tjuyu, an Egyptian noblewoman descended from Ahmose Nefertari[citation needed], and was the father of Tiye, who became Amenhotep's Great Royal Wife.[7] Some scholars speculate that they also may have been the parents of Ay, an Egyptian general active during the reign of Yuya's grandson Pharaoh Akhenaten, and who eventually became pharaoh himself, as Kheperkheprure Ay. That Ay was Yuya's son is just one of many theories debated among archaeologists.
  
  Together with his wife, Yuya was buried in the Valley of the Kings, in KV46, where their largely unpillaged remains were found in 1905.[8]
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  Yuya and Joseph
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  The second and inner coffins of Yuya's mummy.
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  The second and inner coffins of Yuya's mummy.
  
  Yuya's facial features, as observed on his mummy, have led some archaeologists to postulate that he was actually Asiatic in origin. Some scholars have gone so far as to connect Yuya with the biblical story of Joseph, a son of Jacob and Rachel. They point out, inter alia, that the hieroglyph for "ya" is extremely similar to that for "sef", and thus that the name should in fact be read "Yusef."[citation needed]
  
  The Egyptian Language has the sounds j (if hard), s, and f.[9] It however lacks the o sound, our only evidence that Egyptian ever had this sound is from the Greeks, and the e traditionally placed between consonants, and turning w's to u are completely a fabrication of the Western tongue and do not bear relation to the actual pronunciation.[10]
  
  This view is opposed by Biblical literalists who note that the book of Exodus in the Torah states that the Israelites brought Joseph's bones out of Egypt. Thus, since Yuya's body was found in Egypt in the Valley of the Kings, they claim that it is impossible that he is indeed Joseph. Those who do not accept the total historical accuracy of the Bible respond that Joseph may have been a composite of more than one individual,[citation needed] or that the part about his body's removal to Canaan may have been a later insertion, as the name for God (Elohim) used around that passage is different from the name used in the surrounding chapters (YHWH).[11]
  
  Mainstream Egyptologists do not take these speculations seriously, noting that what we know of Yuya's family suggests that they did not come from Asia, but from the regional nobility[citation needed] of Akhmim, in Upper Egypt, as it is odd how strongly connected to the town he seems to be.[12]
  
  The claim about the hieroglyphs in Yuya's name being misread is also rejected by mainstream archaeology. The "ya" in his name is, in fact, two hieroglyphs, not one; and there is no single hieroglyph for "sef" in Egyptian. Hieroglyphs for "set" or "seth" look like a throne seat and a shoulder knot respectively, and do not in any way resemble a combination of a reed leaf and a vulture used for "ya". The hieroglyphs for "sef', "sep", "sf", and "sp" in Egyptian only vaguely represent the hieroglyps for "ya", and it is not likely that they are meant to.
  An excavation assistant beside the 2.75 meter outer coffin shortly after exacation.
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  An excavation assistant beside the 2.75 meter outer coffin shortly after exacation.
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  List of Honors
  
  Yuya was given the following honors:[13]
  
  * Father of the Holy Father
  * The holy father of the Lord of the Two Lands (the pharaoh is known as the Lord of the Two Lands)
  * Master of the Horse
  * Deputy of His Majesty in the Chariotry
  * Bearer of the Ring of the King of Lower Egypt
  * Seal-bearer of the King of Lower Egypt
  * Hereditary Noble and Count
  * Overseer of the Cattle of Min, Lord of Akhmim
  * Overseer of the Cattle of Amun
  * Favorite of the Good God
  * Confidant of the King
  * Confidant of the Good God
  * Mouth of the King of Upper Egypt
  * Ears of the King of Lower Egypt
  * Prophet of the God Min
  * Unique Friend
  * First of the Friends
  * Prince
  * Great Prince
  * Great of Love
  * Plentiful of Favors in the House of the King
  * Plentiful of Favors under his Lord
  * Enduring of Love under his Lord
  * Beloved of the King of Upper Egypt
  * Beloved of the King of Lower Egypt
  * Beloved of the Lord of the Two Lands
  * Beloved of God
  * Possessor of Favor under the Lord of the Two Lands
  * Praised of the Good God
  * Praised of his God
  * Praised of his Lord
  * Praised of his Lord Amun
  * Praised of the King
  * Praised of the Lord of the Two Lands
  * Praised One who came forth from the Body Praised
  * One Made Rich by the King of Lower Egypt
  * One Made Great by the King of Lower Egypt
  * One Made Great by the Lord Who Does Things
  * First among the King's Companions
  * The Wise One
  * He Whom the King Made Great and Wise, Whom the King Has Made His Double.
  
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  Footnotes
  
  1. ^ (Osman p. 113)
  2. ^ (Osman p. 3)
  3. ^ (Osman p. 42)
  4. ^ (Osman p. 56)
  5. ^ (Osman p. 15)
  6. ^ (Osman pp. 49-50)
  7. ^ (Osman p. 15)
  8. ^ (Osman p. 8)
  9. ^ (Collier and Manley p. 3)
  10. ^ (Collier and Manley p. 4)
  11. ^ (Osman p. 3)
  12. ^ http://amscresearch.com/_wsn/page4.html
  13. ^ (Osman pp. 14-5)
  
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  References
  
  * Collier, Mark and Manley, Bill. How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Revised Edition. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998.
  * Osman, Ahmed. The Hebrew Pharaohs of Egypt. Rochester: Bear and Company, 1987.
  * Winsten, Joseph. Moses Meets Israel: The Origins of One God. Rumford Inc., 1999.

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