Amenhotep III's daughter statue discovered in Kom El Hitan

Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim announced a discovery of a statue of the daughter of Amenhotep III.
The statue of 170 cm height and 52cm width was discovered by the Egyptian European mission directed by Dr. Hourig Sourouzian working on the site of Amenhotep III in Kom El Hitan on the West Bank of Luxor.

The Minister said that the discovered statue is a part of 14 meters height colossi of alabaster used to be erected in front of the third pylon of the temple. Most of the colossi parts were discovered in the past few years.
The colossi would have shown Amenhotep III with his daughter who was called "Iset".
According to the Minister, the statue shows for the first time this Princess with her father on her own although she shared other statues with both her parents and sisters which are on display at the Egyptian museum on Tahrir.

Ali Asfar said that the statue shows the King sitting on his throne and his hands on his knees and his daughter standing between his feet.
The daughter wears a round wig and laying her hands next to her holding a menit (menat) necklace in her right hand. Her name and titles were inscribed near her feet including "Great Royal Wife" and "The beloved of her father". Her face was damaged by erosion and her feet are missing.

Abd El Hakim Karar, director of Luxor antiquities said "A project to restore Amenhotep III colossi and regroup the statue of Princess Iset is going on at the moment in order to erect it where it used to be in front of the third pylon."

New findings at Tuthmosis III Mortuary temple, Akhnaton was found too!

The excavation, restoration, conservation and site management project of the Mortuary Temple of Thutmosis III, located on the West bank of Luxor, first began in 2008.  This has been a collaborative project between the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt and the Academy of Fine Arts of Seville, Spain

According to Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim, Minister of Antiquities, the Egyptian-Spanish mission working in the site of Tuthmosis III mortuary temple on the West Bank of Luxor, found the lower parts of two black granite statues.

One of the discovered parts of the statues found bears an inscription of King Tuthmosis III name.

The parts were found inside a mud brick structure in the northern part of the temple.

The mission also found parts of limestone doors of one of the temple buildings with texts and cavernous/sunken inscriptions of two cartouches of Tuthmosis III.

Dr. Mohamed Abd El Maqsoud, Head of the Ancient Egypt department, pointed out that the scenes and inscriptions carved very neatly and with maximum accuracy which is common for art in the middle of the 18^th Dynasty. He also said that one of these doors has an inscription of the High Priest “Khonsu”, beside the discovery of a group of royal seals of Akhnaton and Ramses II.

Dr. Abd El Maqsoud referred that finding the name or Ramses II and Priest Khonsu confirms that a part of the temple was used till the time of Ramses II and Akhnaton seals shows that it was used for religious rituals in the beginning of King Akhnaton’s reign.

  

Dr. Myriam Seco Alvarez, the director of the mission working on the site said “The mission has been working on conservation of the discovered mud brick buildings in the site of Tuthmosis III temple for 6 consecutive seasons.”

 

 

The excavation, restoration, conservation and site management project of the Mortuary Temple of Thutmosis III, located on the West bank of Luxor, first began in 2008.  This has been a collaborative project between the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt and the Academy of Fine Arts of Seville, Spain.
Thutmosis III temple Project web site (In English and Spanish) HERE