Maia (nurse)

[1][2] Maia bears the titles "wet nurse of the king", "educator of the god's body" and "great one of the harem".

Apart from Tutankhamun, the Overseer of the Magazine Rahotep, the High Priest of Thoth, and scribes named Tetinefer and Ahmose are mentioned in inscriptions.

[3] Maia's tomb was discovered in 1996 by the French archaeologist Alain Zivie and his team in the vicinity of the Bubasteion complex dedicated to the deity Bastet at Saqqara.

A relief in the tomb's first chamber shows Maia sitting on a chair with Tutankhamun on her lap and surrounded by six people honouring the young king.

[4] A door leads to a second longer chamber found full of rubble and partly burnt mummified cats.

[5] She is depicted as a mummy in relation to the opening of the mouth ritual and she is standing before the underworld god Osiris.