Oldal 163 [163]
LATE 18"" DYNASTY — FROM TUTANKHAMUN TO HOREMHEB
III.21. Ipay
Date: Tutankhamun/late 18" dynasty (based on the cartouches on the finds in the
tomb)
Genealogy: Ipay ¢ —_——? 9
79 Pa 7h 78/2
Tomb: Dahshur North
Remains: — tomb structure
— stamped bricks
— stele
Functional titles: wb3 nswt wb “.wj
Jmj-r3 pr
ss nswt
S$ nswt m3°
Honorific title: mrj-f
The wb3 nswt w"b ".wj royal wb3 clean of hands" Ipay is known from his tomb in the
necropolis north of Dahshur, as well as from two stamped bricks and a stele of him,
found during the excavation.** According to the cartouches on the objects found in the
shafts of the tomb, the structure can be dated to the post-Amarna period, most likely
during the reign of Tutankhamun.*?
The superstructure of the tomb is missing, however, the foundation and the lower
courses of the mudbrick walls show the plan of one of the largest tombs found in Dahshur,
with its ca. 47 m length and 17 m width.*” The tomb structure consists of a ramp, a first
*8 For the excavation of the tomb, description of its structure and the finds, see Yoshimura et al., 1997,
1998, 1999, 2000, 2001; Yoshimura — Hasegawa, 2000.
9 Yoshimura et al., 1999, 8; Yoshimura et al., 2000, 5; Yoshimura et al., 2001, 6. Yoshimura and
Hasegawa suggest a post-Amarna date also based on an architectural feature of the tomb, mud-brick
superstructure with a limestone revetment, which process was used in tombs dated after the trans¬
fer of the capital from Amarna to Memphis by Tutankhamun until the first half of the reign of
Ramesses II, see Yoshimura — Hasegawa, 2000, 147. Shirley suggests that Ipay continued to serve
under Ay and Horemheb, see Shirley, 2013, 603.
7° Tt is similar in size to the tomb of Horemheb or Maya and Meryt in Saqqara, for the tomb publica¬
tions see Martin, 1989; Martin, 2012.