Amenhotep (Huy)

Ipy likely succeeded his father sometime after the first Heb-Sed festival of Amenhotep III.

[1] He appears in the tomb of his uncle Ramose at the end of the reign of Amenhotep III when he has taken over his father's duties.

It contained a sarcophagus, a granite canopic chest, model scribal boards and a stele with a long religious text.

The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden has a red granite pyramidion (Inv.

[3] A stela belonging to Amenhotep was found at the Monastery of Apa Jeremias where it had been used as a window sill.

The statue now in the Ashmolean museum records how Amenhotep donated land, serfs and animals.

[2][5][6] Amenhotep's now lost tomb[1] had been discovered in 1821 or 1822 and items such as the scribal palettes, the cubit rods and the jars had been removed.

The sarcophagus contained the small pyramidion, the cubit rod, an alabaster palette and at least some of the jars.

[3] The tomb would have further consisted of a brick built chapel and this structure would have been topped by the granite pyramidion (now in Leiden).

The stele depicted Amenhotep and his wife Mey before the gods Osiris, Ptah, Isis and Hathor.