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511: 274: 250: 262: 238: 1030: 206:, day 15 of the reign of Akhenaten. The Penthu mentioned in the inscription is presumably the same Penthu who was the owner of Amarna Tomb 5. Due his position as a chief priest within the Aten priesthood, it is unlikely to be a coincidence that he would have been placed in charge of quarrying stone for this temple. The inscription was first published in 2012 by Athena van der Perre and established that 510: 152:, the sole companion, the attendant of the Lord of the Two Lands, the favorite of the good god, king's scribe, the king's subordinate, First servant of the 356:
Aiden Dodson, Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation, American University in Cairo Press (2009), page 79
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An inscription discovered in 2004 in the Dayr Abū Ḥinnis limestone quarry records that quarrying was being undertaken for building work on the
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was still alive in the second last year of Akhenaten's reign--his Year 16--and makes it probable she ruled Egypt as the female king
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N. de G. Davies, The rock tombs of El-Amarna, Parts III and IV, 1905 (Reprinted 2004), The Egypt Exploration Society,
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under the authority of the king's scribe Penthu. The inscription is explicitly dated to Year 16, 3rd month of
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the Vizier is not certain, however. He had a tomb constructed at
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Erased figures of Akhenaten and Nefertiti from Penthu's tomb
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Die Ägyptischen Personennamen, Bd. 1: Verzeichnis der Namen
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noble who bore the titles of sealbearer of the King of
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Hieratic Inscriptions from the Tomb of Tut'ankhamun
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Index

18th Dynasty
Akhenaten
Amarna Tomb 5
hieroglyphs
Era
New Kingdom
Ancient Egyptian
Egyptian
Lower Egypt
Aten
Akhetaten
Eighteenth Dynasty
Akhenaten
Amarna Period
Ay
Tutankhamun
Pentu
Amarna
Amarna Tomb 5
Small Aten Temple
Akhet
Nefertiti
Neferneferuaten
List of ancient Egyptian scribes
The exterior entrance to Penthu's tomb
Erased figures of Akhenaten and Nefertiti from Penthu's tomb
A depiction of Penthu in his Amarna Tomb 5
An interior view of Penthu's Amarna tomb 5
Die Ägyptischen Personennamen, Bd. 1: Verzeichnis der Namen

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