It was intended for the burial of Ay, who later became Pharaoh, after the 18th Dynasty king Tutankhamun.

The tomb was only partially carved from the rock, with the first part of the pillared hall approaching completion.

[1] This Amarna tomb was published after an excavation in 1903 by Norman de Garis Davies.

[2] The tomb also contains the longest, most complete version of the Great Hymn to the Aten.

On Boundary Stela K, one of the sixteen large granite stelae that set the boundaries of Ahketaten,[3] Akhenaten dictated the tombs beyond the royal necropolis to include "Let there be a tomb made for The God's Father."