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| The "mayor of the city", Sennefer, portrayed with a more refined version of the face of king Amenhotep II, smelling the freshness of a lotus in his Theban tomb. Unfortunately, this particular scan of the image does not show the lines of the finely-drawn nostrils, which are there in reality. Note also that the earrings of Sennefer, which appear to be of thin sheet gold, are not drawn through the lobes but hang from the concave portion of the ear. On his right wrist is a bracelet, the exact type found within the wrappings of the mummy of Thutmose III and also among the funerary items of his general, Dehuty. The features of Amenhotep II are not exactly unfamiliar within the 18th Dynasty. Curiously, they are in evidence quite a bit earlier, with Amenhotep I, even though these kings are supposedly not related! |
| The canopic jar of Queen Ahmose-Nefertari, found in the Deir el Bahri cache, has a male head as its lid-- the usual guardian, Imsety--but with very distinctive features. By default, one must assume this represents her son, Amenhotep I, but Amenhotep II would have had the same appearance from a frontal view. On the next page is a small statue, much enlarged, suspended from a gold chain. It was found in a coffinette in the tomb of Tutankhamun, among his heirlooms, and must also, by default, represent Amenhotep I as a child-king, as the second Amenhotep claims to have been already 18 when he succeeded. GO TO NEXT PAGE |
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