Evidence of the Amenhotep III/Akhenaton co-regency!!!

Microsoft Word - asasif _1_.doc - MSA_Asasif_Feb2014.pdf: Arab Republic of Egypt
Ministry of State for Antiquities Affaires
The Minister’s Office
The Minister of Antiquities, Dr.
Mohammed Ibrahim declared the
discovery of architectural rema
ins (of walls and
columns) in the
tomb of the Vizier Amen-Hotep Huy N
̊
28 in Asasif Area –
Luxor. Some of these remain
s carry scenes showing both
Amenhotep III and Amenhotep IV
(father and son) in the same
space, and one following the other. The remains also show
hieroglyphic inscriptions of the
names of both kings beside each
other.
The importance of this
discovery, Dr. Ibrahim says, is that it
presents the defin
itive evidence of
the co regency between
Amenhotep III and Amenhotep IV
because it dates exactly at the
beginning of the first Heb-Se
d of Amenhotep II, in the 30
th
year of
his reign.
Dr. Francisco j. Martin, the Field
and Scientific Director of the
Spanish Mission working in the Asasif
Project said that the project
started in 2009 with a study and ex
amination of the architectural
elements of the tomb and managed to discover a number of
ceramic and structural findings
that are now being graphically
recorded.