The southern tombs of El Amarna .. The Tomb of Ay ( No. 25 ) .. Part ( 26 )

A. General notes

Tomb No. 25 is important, not for its condition, for it is unfinished, but for its owner, who was that Ay ( Eye ) who, after serving Akhenaten in the king's youth, and being a supporter of his religious policy all through, finally succeeded to the throne after the death of Tutankhamun, and has his actual burial-place in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes, where it is No. 23, known as ' The Tomb of the Apes ' .

The southern tombs of El Amarna .. The Tomb of Any ( No. 23 ) .. Part ( 25 )

Tomb No. 23 belongs to Any ( or Eny ) . The position of this tomb will best be learnt from the map ( Plate 13-c ) . A broad road leads to it from the river, marking out the spot as the site of an important tomb .

The southern tombs of El Amarna .. The Tomb of May ( No. 14 ) .. Part ( 24 )

A. Previous Work

The existence of this large tomb ( No. 14 ) must have been patent to visitors at all periods ; but as the entrance was almost completely blocked with sand, what was visible was extremely unpromising, and the tomb was not cleared by M. Urbain Bouriant in 1883 . This task, however, was carried out by M. Alessandro Barsanti ten years later, and M. Georges Émile Jules Daressy published most of the texts of this tomb of a " flabellifère ", but not his name, for he found it erased from the inscriptions .