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King Ay (1325-1321)

Hieroglyphic name: 

Horus name of ay
Nebti name of ay
Head statue of King Ay
Name: Ay, Itinetjer-Aja, Kheperkheperure-Irimaat, Heqasekhepertawy and Horus name (Kanakht Tekhenkhau).

King Ay  prevailed  from  1323  B.C.E. until  his  death.  Ay rose  the  toilet  upon  the  death  of  Tutankhamun and  apparently  married  Ankhesenamon, the  boy  kings widow. She  does  not  look  after  the  initial  ecological succession of Aya, however. The queen who is presented in all lasting texts is Tey, a cheaper who had didst as a nurse to Nefertiti and had married Aya before his entree to the throne.

Aya, besides a worse, had been the Master of the Horse and Fan Bearer and then vizier and prime minister for Akhenaten (1353-1335 B.C.E.) at Amarna, but he came  the  shape  of  regrouping  the  government  and the  aggrandizement  of  the  god Amun during  his  brief reign. His portrayals depict a man with a close, bony face and a long, light nose. Aya put up Karnak colonnade and  a  rock-cut  enshrine  at  Akhmin. He  established  a  mortuary temple  at Medinet Habu in  western  Thebes  but  did  not allow himself with a tomb there. In the Valley of the Kings a tomb was mounted for him and for Tey, but his rests  have  never  been  found.  His  tomb  is  long  and right in design, with 4 corridors. An certain passage leads to a burial chamber, which was decorated with the  text  of  the  AM Duat. Ayas burial  site  included  a  red granite sarcophagus. He also had an raw tomb in Amarna.  Aya  assigned  Nakhtmin (1), possibly  a  congeneric and a military commander, as his successor, but Horemhab put  him  aside  and  gone  the  last  pharaoh  of  the dynasty.



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