Beide Szenen erscheinen im privaten Kontext zuerst in Memphis und werden folgend wahrend der Ramessidenzeit auch in Theben in Grabern angebracht, wobei beide hier unter
Amenophis III. das erste Mal erscheinen.
But these things were more precious than gold and they turned out to be the famous 'Amarna Letters', tablets found at Tel El Amarna and connected specifically to the reigns of Akhenaten and his father,
Amenophis III, a man who Akhenaten loathed to the point that when he became ruler he ritually defaced all monuments bearing his father's name and titles.
A spectacular exhibition dedicated to the reign of Amenophis III is currently delighting crowds in Paris.
Although not as instantly resplendent as the gold and precious stones we associate with Tutankhamun's tomb treasures, the Amenophis III exhibition is none the less impressive.
By Idris Tawfiq - The Egyptian Gazette Behind a colossal group of limestone statues of King
Amenophis III, his wife Tyi and three of their daughters, from the temple of Medinat Habu on the West Bank at Luxor, there is a small section of the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities dedicated to Pharaoh Amenhoptep IV.
(3) Thus letters EA 68-95 are considered as having been written under the rule of Amenophis III, and letters EA 102 onwards are thought to be from the time of Akhenaton.
Later, probably due to the influence of Gardiner, (5) the accepted view tended to lay the blame for the supposed neglect of vassals on both Amenophis III and Akhenaton.
In addition, one can cite these studies also ignored by Symons: "La clessidra egizia del Museo Barracco," VO 6 (1986): 193-209; "Some Considerations of Egyptian Star-Clocks," Archiv der Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften 22-24 (1988): 1127-50--a very useful work--and "La cleissidra di Karnak: L'orologia ad acqua di
Amenophis III," OA 28 (1989): 227-71.
Similar military activities, staff fighting and boxing, are seen in tomb pictures of the ceremonies before
Amenophis III during his third Jubilee Festival.
Interestingly enough, the first primary evidence concerning the Hittites to become available to modern scholarship pertains precisely to the latter years of this period: copies of letters (in Hittite!) exchanged by
Amenophis III and Tarhuntaradu of Arzawa in southwestern Anatolia, which were discovered among the Amarna correspondence and initially published in 1889-90 (EA 31 = VBoT 1 and EA 32 = VBoT2).