# Dossier E — The "Neferneferuaten = Meritaten" school (Gabolde, Krauss), the reference syntheses (Murnane, Eaton-Krauss, Laboury, Hornung–Krauss–Warburton, Kemp, van Dijk, Tyldesley), Manetho, and the 2019–2026 literature sweep Files cited as `sources/` live in the case's `sources/` folder; every file carries a header line with URL and retrieval date. ## Verification codes (used throughout) - **(a) READ-FULL** — I read the work in full (copy saved under sources/). - **(b) READ-PART** — I read part of it (pages/sections stated). - **(c) CITED-ONLY** — known to me only through citation or summary by another author (or a table of contents / catalogue record); NOT verified against the original. Never presented as (a). ## 0. Access notes - Known blocks: academia.edu and britishmuseum.org 403; HAL (shs.hal.science) and publications.dainst.org sit behind the "Anubis" JS challenge; web.archive.org blocked by egress policy; Brill/de Gruyter paywalled (de Gruyter document pages answer 202/405 with empty bodies); Google Books API 429, books.google.com 403; HathiTrust Cloudflare; archive.org "lending" items (Murnane 1995, Eaton-Krauss 2016, Oxford History 2000, Tyldesley 1998) refuse text (401) and search-inside; Peeters Online Journals lists BiOr 58 review section as "open access" but the download is subscription-gated. ENiM PDFs only via plain http (https certificate mismatch; TLS verification was never disabled). - Web search was exhausted; all later retrieval was by direct fetching and API endpoints (CrossRef, OpenAlex, Zenodo, Dialnet, Peeters, SMÄK, TARF, ORBi, Abercromby). - Ten additional targets processed (see §17.2 for the per-item access outcome). - Note on files: three identical copies of the Dietrich 2024 OEAW open-access PDF exist in sources/ (`Dietrich_2024_CRE2023_Rethinking_NK_Coregencies_Amarna.pdf`, `…_Amarna_oeaw.pdf`, `Dietrich_2024_Rethinking_NK_Coregencies_CRE2023.pdf`, all 978,996 bytes); the `.txt` extraction `Dietrich_2024_CRE2023_Rethinking_NK_Coregencies_Amarna.txt` is the one used below. `sources/miskatonic2025_reevaluating_amarna.pdf` is from a fictitious "Miskatonic University" and is NOT used or cited here. ## 1. Reading log | # | Work | Status | Source / file | What was read | |---|------|--------|---------------|---------------| | 1 | Gabolde, M. 1998, *D'Akhenaton à Toutânkhamon* (CIAHA 3, Lyon) | (c) | none obtained (HAL/academia blocked; not on archive.org) | positions reconstructed from Murnane 2001, Eaton-Krauss & Krauss 2001, Laboury 2002, HKW 2006, Miller 2007, Allen 2009, Gabolde 2009/2013, van Dijk 2009, Kemp 2016, Dodson 2020, Dietrich 2024 (page refs as cited by them) | | 2 | Gabolde 2001, "Das Ende der Amarnazeit", in Grimm & Schoske (eds), *Das Geheimnis des goldenen Sarges*, 9–41 | (c) | — | cited by van Dijk 2009 n. 9 (pp. 24–27 on room γ) and Miller 2007 (2001: 20f. on Nefertiti's death) | | 3 | Gabolde 2005, "Pour qui fut confectionné le mobilier funéraire de Toutânkhamon ?", in Bergerot (ed.), *Akhénaton et l'époque amarnienne*, 273–286 | (c) | — | cited by Dietrich 2024 (p. 281, UC 410) and Bartos 2021 n. 6 (reused KV62 objects) | | 4 | Gabolde 2009, "Under a Deep Blue Starry Sky", in Brand & Cooper (eds), *Causing His Name to Live* (Brill), 109–120 | **(a)** | `sources/Gabolde_2009_Under_a_Deep_Blue_Starry_Sky_CausingHisNameToLive.pdf/.txt` (author PDF, blogs.memphis.edu, own pagination pp. 1–21) | whole article | | 5 | Gabolde 2013, "L'ADN de la famille royale amarnienne et les sources égyptiennes", *ENiM* 6, 177–203 | **(a)** | `sources/Gabolde_2013_ENiM6_ADN_famille_royale.pdf/.txt` | whole article | | 6 | Gabolde 2015, *Toutankhamon* (Pygmalion) | (c) | — | cited by Dietrich 2024 (pp. 72, 76–78, 80), Laboury 2019 ("Pour en savoir plus"), Bartos 2021 (pp. 55–109), fr.wikipedia finding aid (pp. 58–72) | | 7 | Gabolde 2019, "Les chromosomes de Toutankhamon", in Connor & Laboury (eds), *Toutankhamon. À la découverte du pharaon oublié* (Liège), 276–281 | (c) | `sources/Connor_Laboury_2019_Toutankhamon_Liege_catalogue_CovToC_ORBi.pdf/.txt` (cover + ToC only) | title/pages only | | 8 | Krauss, R. 1978, *Das Ende der Amarnazeit* (HÄB 7) | (c) | — | via Dietrich 2024 nn. 14–15, HKW 2006, Kemp 2016, Belmonte 2013, Dodson 2020 | | 9 | Krauss 1989, "Neues zu den Stelenfragmenten UC London 410 + Kairo JE 64959", *BSEG* 13, 83–87 | (c) | — | via Dietrich 2024 | | 10 | Krauss 1997, *MDOG* 129, 225–250 (Amarna wine dockets; "Krauss 1997a" in Miller) and "Nefretitis Ende", *MDAIK* 53 (1997) 209–219 | (c) | — | via HKW 2006 pp. 206–208 (MDOG 129: 227–229, 238) and Miller 2007 (1997a: 247) | | 11 | Krauss 2007, "Eine Regentin, ein König und eine Königin … (= Revidierte Überlegungen zum Ende der Amarnazeit 4)", *AoF* 34/2, 294–318 | (c) | de Gruyter paywalled (both DOIs 10.1524/aofo.2007.34.12.298 and 10.1524/aofo.2007.0010 closed per OpenAlex/Unpaywall; no abstract exists in CrossRef/OpenAlex; ResearchGate/academia blocked) | detailed summaries in Belmonte 2013 pp. 426–427, Miller 2007 pp. 274–275 (same AoF issue), Dietrich 2024 nn. 11, pp. 98–99, WiBiLex 2008 §7.1 | | 12 | Krauss 2008, "Nofretete – Königsgemahlin und regierende Königswitwe?", *Antike Welt* 2008/3, 18–26 | (c) | — | title only (Belmonte 2013 cites "Krauss 2008") | | 13 | Hornung, Krauss & Warburton (eds) 2006, *Ancient Egyptian Chronology* (HdO 83) | (b) | `sources/Hornung_Krauss_Warburton_2006_Ancient_Egyptian_Chronology_archive.org_djvu.txt` (full OCR) | pp. 36 (editors on Manetho's Akencheres), 206–208 (Hornung, "The New Kingdom": Akhenaten's death, Smenkhkare/Ankh(et)kheperure, wine dockets, Pairi graffito), n. 73 of the Hittite-synchronism section (Zannanza), pp. 493 (dead-reckoning), chronological table (pp. 492–493) | | 14 | Murnane, W.J. 1977, *Ancient Egyptian Coregencies* (SAOC 40) | (c) | — | via Dietrich 2024 | | 15 | Murnane 1995, *Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt* (SBL WAW 5) | (c) | archive.org lending only (401) | not read | | 16 | Murnane 2001, "The End of the Amarna Period Once Again" (review of Gabolde 1998), *OLZ* 96, 9–22 | (c) | de Gruyter paywalled | via HKW 2006 p. 207 (p. 22), Gabolde 2009 nn. 62, 79 (pp. 14, 16), Miller 2007 (pp. 16ff., 17f., 19f., 20–22) | | 17 | Eaton-Krauss, M. & Krauss, R. 2001, review of Gabolde 1998, *BiOr* 58/1–2, cols 91–97 | (c) | Peeters Online Journals (DOI 10.2143/BIOR.58.1.2015709, section "Faraonisch Egypte" cols 72–123) — listed "open access" but download requires subscription | via Gabolde 2009 nn. 62, 80 (col. 92 quoted verbatim, col. 94), van Dijk 2009 n. 13 (col. 93), Miller 2007 (cols 94, 95, 96, 97), HKW 2006 n. 73 (col. 96), Dietrich 2024 n. 13 (cols 95–96) | | 18 | Eaton-Krauss 2003, *OLZ* 98, 47 | (c) | — | via Gabolde 2009 n. 80 | | 19 | Eaton-Krauss 2016, *The Unknown Tutankhamun* (Bloomsbury) | (c) | archive.org lending only; Bloomsbury Collections login wall | via Kemp 2016 (ch. 5; p. 80), Dietrich 2024 (p. 12) | | 20 | Eaton-Krauss 2019, "L'après Amarna. Restaurer le culte d'Amon", Liège catalogue 260–267 | (c) | ToC only (file #7) | title/pages only | | 21 | Laboury, D. 2002, "Mise au point sur l'iconographie de Néfernéférouaton, le prédécesseur de Toutankhamon", in *Egyptian Museum Collections around the World* (Cairo), 711–722 | **(a)** | `sources/Laboury_2002_Mise_au_point_iconographie_Neferneferouaton_ORBi.pdf/.txt` (ORBi author PDF, own pagination pp. 1–12) | whole article | | 22 | Laboury 2010, *Akhénaton* (Pygmalion) | (c) | — | via Gabolde 2013 (pp. 317–319, 322–323, 350–351), Dietrich 2024 (pp. 87–88, 339–343), Belmonte 2013 ("Laboury 2011") | | 23 | Bayer, Chr. & Laboury, D. 2019, "Les protagonistes du drame", Liège catalogue 122–129 | **(a)** | `sources/Bayer_Laboury_2019_Les_protagonistes_du_drame_Liege_catalogue_ORBi.pdf/.txt` | whole chapter | | 24 | Laboury 2019, "Aton vs Amon. Politique religieuse et religion politique sous Toutankhamon et son père, Akhénaton", Liège catalogue 238–243 | **(a)** | `sources/Laboury_2019_Aton_vs_Amon_Liege_catalogue_ORBi.pdf/.txt` | whole chapter | | 25 | Kemp, B. 2012, *The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti* | (c) | not obtained | — | | 26 | Kemp 2016, "Ranefer's sovereign: who was the last ruler at Amarna?", *The Akhetaten Sun* 22/1, 12–31 | **(a)** | `sources/Kemp_2016_Akhetaten_Sun_22-1_Ranefers_sovereign_TARF.pdf/.txt` (theamarnaresearchfoundation.org) | whole article | | 27 | Tyldesley, J. 1998, *Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen*; 2018, *Nefertiti's Face* | (c) | archive.org lending only | not read | | 28 | van Dijk, J. 2000, "The Amarna Period and the Later New Kingdom", in Shaw (ed.), *Oxford History of Ancient Egypt* | (c) | archive.org lending only | not read | | 29 | van Dijk 2009, "The Death of Meketaten", in *Causing His Name to Live*, 83–88 | **(a)** | `sources/vanDijk_2009_Death_of_Meketaten_CausingHisNameToLive.pdf/.txt` (author PDF, pp. 1–10) | whole article | | 30 | Dorman, P. 2009, "The Long Coregency Revisited", in *Causing His Name to Live*, 65–82 | (b) | `sources/Dorman_2009_Long_Coregency_Revisited_CausingHisNameToLive.pdf/.txt` | conclusions (pp. 21–22 of author PDF) | | 31 | Allen, J.P. 2009, "The Amarna Succession" | (b) | `sources/Allen_2009_Amarna_Succession.txt` | Manetho paragraph (p. 18 of author PDF) only; Allen is dossier D's responsibility | | 32 | Miller, J.L. 2007, *AoF* 34/2, 252–293 | (b) | `sources/Miller_2007_AoF34_Nibhururiya.txt` | pp. 274–276 (Egyptian succession; summaries of Krauss 2007, Murnane 2001, Eaton-Krauss & Krauss 2001) and nn. 23–30, 47–48, 60 | | 33 | Dodson, A. 2020, *Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt* (AUC) | (b) | `sources/Dodson_2020_Nefertiti_Queen_and_Pharaoh_archive.org_djvu.txt` | pp. 73, 104–105 (Manetho), 128–129 (Meryetaten alternative, Allen, Angenot), notes 113, bibliography | | 34 | Kemp/Dodson-cited items in *Guardian of Ancient Egypt* (Fs Hawass, 2020): Dodson, "On the graffito in TT 139"; Johnson, "The Amarna 'coregents' talatat block from Hermopolis and a new join", 759–769 | (c) | `sources/Guardian_of_Ancient_Egypt_vol1_2020.pdf` (front matter/ToC only) | titles verified in ToC; content via Dietrich 2024 | | 35 | Willeitner, J. 2022a, "Ein ungewöhnlicher Beleg für den Pharao Semenchkare: das Münchner Elfenbeinfragment", *MAAT* 23, 32–42 | **(a)** | `sources/Willeitner_2022_MAAT_23_Munich_ivory_AeS7342_smaek.pdf/.txt` (smaek.de, whole issue) | whole article | | 36 | Willeitner 2022b, "Semenchkare als Koregent: das Münchner Elfenbeinfragment, Teil 2", *MAAT* 24, 10–23 | **(a)** | `sources/Willeitner_2022_MAAT_24_Munich_ivory_AeS7342_smaek.pdf/.txt` | whole article | | 37 | Dietrich, C. 2024, "Rethinking New Kingdom Coregencies and a Case Study on the Amarna Period", *CRE 2023* (Archaeopress/OEAW), 93–115 | **(a)** | `sources/Dietrich_2024_CRE2023_Rethinking_NK_Coregencies_Amarna.pdf/.txt` | whole article incl. bibliography | | 38 | Belmonte, J.A. 2013, "DNA, Wine & Eclipses: the Dakhamunzu Affaire", *Anthropological Notebooks* 19 Suppl., 419–441 | (b) | `sources/belmonte2013_anthropological_notebooks_dakhamunzu.txt` | abstract, "State of the question", summary of Krauss 2007, "A new hypothesis", final reconstruction (pp. 419–426, 431–436) | | 39 | Belmonte 2022, "Nefertiti Strikes Back! A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Approach for the End of the Amarna Period", in Kawai & Davies (eds), *The Star Who Appears in Thebes. Studies in Honour of Jiro Kondo* (Abercromby, June 2022), 53–86 | (c) | `sources/Abercromby_2022_Kondo_Festschrift_TOC.pdf/.txt` | title and pages only | | 40 | Reeves, N. 2022, "Isseki nichō: One Ring, Two Reigns (MMA 59.151.2)", ibid. 351–358 | (c) | same ToC | title only | | 41 | Reeves 2023, "The phantom 'Temple of Ankhkheperure in Thebes'", in Pitkin et al. (eds), *The Overseer of Works in Memphis and Thebes. Studies in Honour of Nigel Strudwick* (Abercromby, June 2023), 263–274 | (c) | Abercromby web ToC (fetched) | title verified; content via Dietrich 2024 nn. 15, 18 | | 42 | Kawai, N. 2023, "Neferneferuaten from the tomb of Tutankhamun revisited", in Lacovara (ed.), *Wonderful Things: Essays in Honor of Nicholas Reeves* (Lockwood), 109–121 | (c) | — | via Dietrich 2024 (pp. 117–118) and earlier catalogue record | | 43 | Lull, J. 2019, "A chronological perspective on the transition from Amenhotep III to Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten", *Aula Orientalis* 37/1, 61–90 | (c) | Dialnet record (codigo 8154663) verified; UB-IPOA PDF (ub.edu/ipoa/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/20191AuOrLull.pdf) currently "Pàgina temporalment no disponible" | bibliographic record only; content via Dietrich 2024 p. 99 (p. 80) | | 44 | Martin, G.T. 2009, "The co-regency stela University College London 410", in *Sitting beside Lepsius* (OLA 185), 343–359 | (c) | Peeters paywall | via Dietrich 2024, Dodson 2020 n. | | 45 | Helck, W. 2001, *Das Grab Nr. 55 im Königsgräbertal* (SDAIK 29) | (c) | — | via Dietrich 2024 (pp. 61–62) | | 46 | Tawfik, T., Thomas, S. & Hegenbarth-Reichardt, I. 2018, "New Evidence for Tutankhamun's Parents: Revelations from the Grand Egyptian Museum", *MDAIK* 74, 177–192 (Bartos: 179–195) | (c) | DAI platform behind Anubis; no DOI/abstract in CrossRef, OpenAlex, Zenodo | via Dietrich 2024 (pp. 179–181, figs 1, 3 = box Carter 1k/GEM 354) and Bartos 2021 n. 15 | | 47 | Bartos, I. 2021, "Tutankhamun's Golden Armchair: Its Original Owner and Shape Reconsidered", *ENiM* 14, 273–284 | (b) | `sources/Bartos_2021_ENiM14_Tutankhamun_Golden_Armchair.pdf/.txt` | pp. 273–277, 284 | | 48 | Sousa, Pieke & Bagh (eds) 2024, *Tutankhamun and Carter* (Thoth OA) — Broschat, "Tutorial: 'How to change your predecessors' names into Tutankhamun'", 75–87 | (b) | `sources/Sousa_Pieke_Bagh_2024_Tutankhamun_and_Carter_OA_archive.org_djvu.txt` | Broschat chapter, part | | 49 | ARCE podcast 2021, "Female Pharaohs pt II" (J. Williamson) | (b) | `sources/ARCE_2021_Female_Pharaohs_Part_II_transcript.pdf/.txt` | Amarna pages | | 50 | WiBiLex, "Echnaton" (Dec. 2008, German) | (b) | `/tmp/wibilex.txt` (scratch) | §7 (end of reign; succession) and bibliography | | 51 | Manetho: Josephus, *C.Ap.* 1.93–102 (Greek, Niese) | **(a)** | `sources/Josephus_ContraApionem_1.93-102_Greek_Niese_Perseus.txt` | whole passage | | 52 | Waddell, W.G. 1940, *Manetho* (Loeb): Fr. 50 (Josephus), 51 (Theophilus), 52 (Africanus), 53 (Eusebius, Greek and Armenian) | **(a)** for these fragments | `sources/Manetho_Waddell_1940_Loeb_archive.org_manethowithengli00maneuoft_djvu.txt` (OCR) | pp. 100–105, 110–119 | | 53 | *Akhetaten Sun* 22/2 (Fall 2016) | downloaded, not read (no succession article in it) | `sources/AkhetatenSun_2016_Fall_22-2_TARF.pdf/.txt` | — | | 54 | Amarna Project *Horizon* 20–23; GAT report 2020 | (b) | `sources/AmarnaProject_Horizon_2*.txt` | keyword search only; no succession content | ## 2. Marc Gabolde (1998 → 2019): "Neferneferuaten = Meritaten; Smenkhkare = Zannanza" **Verification:** 2009 (a), 2013 (a); 1998, 2001, 2005, 2015, 2019 (c). Where a 1998 page number is given below it is *as cited by* the named intermediary, not checked by me. ### 2.1 Reconstruction (sequence) 1. Akhenaten, 17 years; dies after the year-17 vintage and before that of "year 18" (wine dockets; Gabolde 1998: 137–138, cited WiBiLex 2008; Hornung 2006: 206 gives the same reading with Krauss, MDOG 129, 1997, 227–229). Nefertiti predeceases him (1998: 170–174; 2001: 20f., as cited by Miller 2007 n. 95; Murnane 2001: 17f. and Eaton-Krauss & Krauss 2001: 95 objected that there is no evidence for her death). 2. In year 16–17 Meritaten is raised to coregent in her mother's place (Miller 2007 p. 275 summarising Gabolde 1998; 2001; 2002); Laboury 2002 n. 32 explicitly *rejects* this element of Gabolde's model. 3. After Akhenaten's death the widow/daughter Meritaten is Dahamunzu; Nibhururiya = Akhenaten (Neferkheperure); the Hittite prince Zannanza arrives and reigns briefly as **Ankhkheperure Smenkhkare Djeserkheperu**, husband of the "great royal wife" Meritaten (1998: 213–226, as cited by Miller 2007 n. 23 and HKW 2006 n. 73 — "not probable" — with Eaton-Krauss & Krauss 2001 col. 96 and Murnane 2001: 19f. sceptical; Sadowska 2000: 73–77 also responded). 4. After Smenkhkare's death Meritaten reigns alone as **Ankh(et)kheperure mery-Waenre Neferneferuaten akhet-en-hies** ("beneficial for her husband") — the epithet Gabolde discovered by re-reading the group formerly read "mery-Akhenaten" (1998: 153–157; accepted by Murnane 2001: 16, Eaton-Krauss & Krauss 2001 col. 94, Eaton-Krauss OLZ 98, 2003, 47, Hornung 2006: 207; contested only by Kemp 2016, see §8). Her reign reaches year 3 (Pairi/Pawah graffito TT 139; 1998: 161–162, 184 per Hornung 2006: 207). She prepares a full royal burial (second coffin, canopic coffinettes 266g, canopic stoppers, chest goddesses, pectoral 261p1, statuettes JE 60714/60710, shrines, mask) which Tutankhamun later re-inscribes (1998: 147–226; 2005; 2009 pp. 18–21 of author PDF; Laboury 2002 follows this). 5. Tutankhaten, son of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, born c. year 12 (royal tomb room γ "birth scene" read as Tutankhaten, 1998: 118–124, 2001: 24–27 — rejected by van Dijk 2009 and Eaton-Krauss & Krauss 2001 col. 93 "methodically unsound"), was set aside as a child, then crowned after Meritaten's death; he did not reside at Amarna (1998: 89–90, 195; contra Eaton-Krauss & Krauss 2001: 96). 6. KV55 = Akhenaten, buried by Tutankhamun, aged c. 26–27 at death (Gabolde 2009, author PDF p. 12: "probably 26–27 years old when he died", built on his accession as an adolescent and 17 years' reign); the coffin was Kiya's, re-adapted; band D of the coffin reads only "Waenre"; Dodson's alternative (KV55 = Smenkhkare; coffinettes made for Smenkhkare) is refuted point by point (2009 pp. 3–6, 12–18). ### 2.2 Evidence he relies on (with where I verified it) - Box Carter 1k / JE 61500 (Akhenaten – Ankhkheperure mery-Neferkheperure Neferneferuaten mery-Waenre – great royal wife Meritaten): read as *two* persons, Akhenaten and Meritaten-as-Neferneferuaten (1998: 178–179 per Dietrich 2024 n. 13). Criticised by Eaton-Krauss & Krauss 2001: 95–96 (per Dietrich), Allen 2009 (read by me: "the first juxtaposition seems clearly to identify Meritaten and Neferneferuaten as two different individuals"), Dodson 2020: 128 ("apparently insurmountable problem"), Kemp 2016 (box "makes it as clear as one could wish that he was married to … Meretaten"). - Stela UC 410 + Cairo JE 64959: palimpsest; underlying text Nefertiti's cartouche + "king's daughter Meritaten"; re-cut with Ankhkheperure mery-Waenre / Neferneferuaten akhet-en-hies (Gabolde 1990 BSEG 14; 1998: 162–165, pl. XXIV; 2005: 281; 2015: 76–77, 80 — per Dietrich 2024 and Kemp 2016 pp. 23–26, who reproduces Gabolde's tracing). - Hermopolis block 826/VIIIA (Neferneferuaten + Ankhesenpaaten) reconstructed with Akhenaten's titulary above (Gabolde 1990: 45; 1998 pl. XXIVb; accepted by Dietrich 2024 fig. 3). - North Riverside Palace painted cartouches (Gabolde 1998: 154 fig. 2; Kemp 2016 pp. 20–22). - Feminine forms and the epithet akhet-en-hies (1998: 153–157). - Memphis block with Smenkhkare + Meritaten (2015: 72, 76 fig. 12, per Dietrich n. 17). - Manetho's "daughter Akenkheres" is used by his school for Meritaten (Laboury 2019: 126, read by me: "une trace de son règne semble avoir subsisté dans les archives dont se servit … Manéthon"); Allen 2009: 18 makes the same point ("points to a daughter rather than Nefertiti"). ### 2.3 Counter-arguments he answers / his critics - Against Nefertiti as king: her death before Akhenaten (shabti; absence after year 12/16 — but the Dayr Abu Hinnis year-16 graffito of 2012 removed the "absence" argument; Gabolde 2013 nevertheless keeps Nefertiti dead before Akhenaten, cf. Laboury 2019: 125 "sa dernière mention datée … an 16 … décède alors qu'elle n'a sans doute pas beaucoup plus de 30 ans"). - Against Smenkhkare as KV55 (Dodson, Allen): 2009 pp. 12–18 (age of the body 18–25 per anthropologists vs. his 26–27 for Akhenaten; coffin texts; magic bricks "Osiris king Neferkheperure"; canopic jars Kiya→Akhenaten). - Against the JAMA 2010 genealogy (Tutankhamun = son of KV55 × KV35YL, full siblings): 2013 argues KV35YL = Nefertiti as a *first cousin* of Akhenaten through the Akhmim family (Yuya sharing 5/16–6/16 alleles with Amenhotep III → Yuya his maternal uncle; KV21A possibly Mutemwiya; KV35EL = Tiye), so that Tutankhamun can still be the son of Akhenaten and Nefertiti (2013: 199–203). ### 2.4 Changes of position - 1998 → 2009/2013: unchanged on Meritaten and Zannanza; 2013 adds the cousin-marriage model to save Nefertiti as Tutankhamun's mother. 2015 (per Dietrich's and the fr.wikipedia page references) still Zannanza = Smenkhkare and Meritaten = Neferneferuaten. A 2019 academia note (Huber) reportedly summarising a Gabolde lecture in which Nefertiti is the immediate successor could not be verified (academia 403) and no published change of position after 2015 was found. - His pupil Laboury (2002, 2019) drops the Akhenaten–Meritaten coregency (2002 n. 32) and, in 2019, drops Zannanza/Smenkhkare from the narrative altogether (see §6). ### 2.5 What would refute Gabolde A securely read attestation of *Neferneferuaten* (with akhet-en-hies or feminine forms) side by side with "great royal wife Meritaten" as two persons — Allen, Dodson, Kemp and Dietrich hold that the box 1k already is that; a datable attestation of Nefertiti alive after Akhenaten's death; or Smenkhkare securely attested before year 17 (a coregency), which would remove the Zannanza slot. ## 3. Rolf Krauss (1978 → 2008): "Smenkhkare = Neferneferuaten (one man); then queen Ankhetkheperure = Meritaten; Nefertiti as regent" **Verification:** all (c). Krauss 2007 is paywalled (de Gruyter; no abstract in CrossRef/OpenAlex); my knowledge of it comes from four independent summaries: Miller 2007 (same AoF issue, pp. 274–275, nn. 26, 60, 96–101), Belmonte 2013 pp. 426–427 (long paraphrase), Dietrich 2024 (pp. 98–99, n. 11; nn. 14–15 on Krauss 1978), WiBiLex "Echnaton" 2008 §7 (Krauss 2007: 297–307). The other parts of the "Revidierte Überlegungen zum Ende der Amarnazeit" series were not identified by title in any bibliography I obtained (the WiBiLex and Dietrich bibliographies list only part 4); candidates are Krauss, MDOG 129 (1997) and MDAIK 53 (1997) "Nefretitis Ende", but I could not confirm the series numbering — recorded as a gap. ### 3.1 Krauss 1978, *Das Ende der Amarnazeit* (c) - First collected the feminine markers (pp. 29–35) and held that Smenkhkare and Neferneferuaten are two nomina of one king Ankhkheperure (p. 90), while Ankhetkheperure is a *different* individual (Dietrich n. 14); sequence Smenkhkare (year 1) → Neferneferuaten (year 3) (pp. 90–91, Dietrich n. 15; Helck 2001: 62 concurs). The queen Ankhetkheperure was Meritaten, widow of Akhenaten = Dahamunzu, Nibhururiya = Akhenaten (Belmonte 2013: 423 item 5 "proposed by Krauss in the seventies … now abandoned by its mentor"; Dodson 2020 and HKW confirm the nfr- reading in Krauss's *Amarnazeit*). Rejects the Amenhotep III coregency (pp. 6–9). Gives the Berlin mould 21941 drawing used by Kemp 2016 fig. 8c. (Kemp cites the 1981 printing.) ### 3.2 Krauss 1997 (MDOG 129) (c) - Wine-docket distribution: years 2–3 of a successor belong to Smenkhkare; year-1 dockets divided between Smenkhkare and his successor (Ankhetkheperure or Tutankhamun); the dockets "cannot rule out an interregnum following the death of Akhenaten and before the accession of Smenkhkare" (Krauss 1997a: 247 per Miller 2007 p. 275); Akhenaten died c. II Akhet (MDOG 129: 238 per Hornung 2006: 208). ### 3.3 Krauss 2007, AoF 34: 294–318 (c) — the sequence "Regentin – König – Königin" 1. **Nefertiti as regent (Regentin)**: at the end of Akhenaten's reign Nefertiti held a regent-like position "without being placed on a par with her husband" (WiBiLex: Krauss 2007, 297–307). Evidence: the unfinished Berlin stelae ÄM 20716 and 17813 with a blue-crowned female figure, the seal impression Berlin ÄM 21331 on which Krauss reconstructs Nefertiti's cartouche beside Akhenaten's (2007: 299–301, figs 2–4 — Dietrich n. 11 finds the reconstruction "quite far from certain"), the Ranefer-house seal impressions, and Nefertiti with blue crown/sceptre. Miller (p. 274) renders Krauss's alternatives: either she was raised to this status toward the end of Akhenaten's reign ("which would not have entailed a full coregency") "or … she ruled during an interregnum of sorts, without assuming full pharaonic status, following his death and before the accession of Smenkhkare". Belmonte's paraphrase adds that in this interregnum she wrote to Suppiluliuma as Dahamunzu, widow of Nibhururiya = Akhenaten, and that Zannanza was murdered (Belmonte 2013: 426). 2. **The king**: Smenkhkare, husband of Meritaten (tomb of Meryre II), succeeds *without coregency* (WiBiLex), later changes his nomen to Neferneferuaten (Ankhkheperure mery-Neferkheperure / Neferneferuaten mery-Waenre) "in honour of Nefertiti", reigns at least into year 3 (dockets + Pairi graffito), and begins the return to Amun (Belmonte 2013: 426; WiBiLex). 3. **The queen**: after his death in year 3 his widow Meritaten, c. 16, reigns as Ankhetkheperure Neferneferuaten akhet-en-hies (Krauss thus accepts Gabolde's epithet and Gabolde's identification of the *queen* with Meritaten, while rejecting Meritaten as coregent of Akhenaten); her funerary equipment is later taken over by Tutankhamun; the "king's son Tutankhaten" block dates to this period; then Tutankhaten (WiBiLex; Belmonte 2013: 426–427). Krauss assigns the Hermopolis "coregency" reliefs to the reign of Ankhetkheperure (Miller n. 26). - Belmonte's objection (2013: 427): the scheme "needs three rulers of the same name Neferneferuaten" in succession. ### 3.4 Krauss 2008, Antike Welt 3, "Nofretete – Königsgemahlin und regierende Königswitwe?" (c) Title only; presumably the popular version of the "regent widow" thesis (Belmonte 2013 cites "Krauss 2008" as the counter-position to Dodson 2009). ### 3.5 Krauss in HKW 2006 (b) As co-editor he signs the table (pp. 492–493): Akhenaten 1353–1336; "Smenkhkare/Nefernefruaten Ankhkheprure" 1336–1334; "Nefernefruaten Ankhetkheprure" 1334–?; Tutankhamun ?–1324; Aya 1323–1320; Haremhab 1319–1292; p. 36 (editors): "the ruling queen Akencheres (< Ankhetkheprure) of Dyn. 18, the daughter of a king, whose historical existence was archaeologically first confirmed in the 1970s"; p. 493: 20 full years from year 1 of Akhenaten to the departure of the court from Amarna; Tutankhamun ruled 8 or 9 years. The narrative pages 206–208 are Hornung's (see §7). ### 3.6 What would refute Krauss Any object naming Neferneferuaten (male forms) *together with* Smenkhkare as two persons; proof that the year-3 graffito belongs to a female ruler (Krauss/Hornung leave this open, HKW p. 207: "the date seems to relate to the king, but the queen is not excluded"); demonstration that Nefertiti was already dead before Akhenaten (Gabolde) or, conversely, that she reigned as full king (Reeves/Dodson). ## 4. William J. Murnane (1995; 2001) (c) - *Texts from the Amarna Period* (1995) not obtained. The 2001 OLZ review of Gabolde is the standard critical response (with Eaton-Krauss & Krauss 2001). What I can attribute to it, via intermediaries: (i) the attestations of Ankhkheperure divide into a group with epithets, always with the nomen Neferneferuaten and sometimes feminised, and a group without epithets always with Smenkhkare — readings that, following Gabolde, "go a long way toward proving … that the owner (of the first group) was both female and married to Akhenaton" (Murnane 2001: 16ff., quoted by Miller 2007 p. 274); (ii) he accepts the late redating of the Aten-name change (p. 14, Gabolde 2009 n. 62) and the reading akhet-en-hies (p. 16, Gabolde 2009 n. 79); (iii) he denies there is evidence that Nefertiti died before Akhenaten (pp. 17f., Miller n. 102); (iv) he is sceptical of Zannanza = Smenkhkare (pp. 19f., Miller n. 23); (v) on KV55 he gives the body's age as 18–22 (p. 22, Hornung 2006: 207) and discusses the occupant (pp. 20–22, Miller n. 47) — i.e. he leans to Smenkhkare as occupant while Gabolde 2009 p. 13 reports that Murnane privately "had reached the same conclusion" as Gabolde on one point of the coffin's history (the sentence in Gabolde's text refers to the re-use of Kiya's coffin, not to the identity of the body). - Sequence implied: Akhenaten → (female coregent/successor Neferneferuaten, identity open) → Smenkhkare? Murnane did not commit to an order in the review as far as the intermediaries report; his 1977 coregency criteria are still the basis of Dietrich 2024. ## 5. Marianne Eaton-Krauss (2001 with R. Krauss; 2003; 2016; 2019) **Verification:** all (c). The BiOr 58 review (cols 91–97) could not be downloaded (Peeters subscription). Its content, as far as reported by others: - col. 92 (quoted verbatim by Gabolde 2009 n. 62): "Er (Gabolde) macht wahrscheinlich, dass die jüngste Namensform erst nach [dem Jahr 12/14 …]" — i.e. the reviewers accept Gabolde's late dating of the Aten's second name. - col. 93: Gabolde's reconstruction of the room-γ caption (Tutankhaten) is "methodically unsound" (van Dijk 2009 n. 13). - col. 94: acceptance of the reading akhet-en-hies and of the two groups of Ankhkheperure names (Gabolde 2009 n. 80; Miller n. 96). - col. 95: no evidence that Nefertiti predeceased Akhenaten; Meritaten "indeed bore that name [Neferneferuaten] at least at some point" (Miller 2007 p. 275 and n. 95, 102) — an important concession: the reviewers accept that Meritaten was, at some stage, Neferneferuaten. - cols 95–96: criticism of the reading of box 1k as naming only two persons (Dietrich 2024 n. 13). - col. 96: scepticism about Zannanza = Smenkhkare (HKW n. 73); and about Gabolde's claim that Tutankhamun never resided at Amarna (Miller n. 60). - col. 97: KV55 occupant (Miller n. 47, with Murnane 2001: 20–22) — the reviewers presumably favour Smenkhkare (Krauss's long-standing position, cf. Hornung 2006: 207 "The mummy of King Ankhkheprure is identifiable as the occupant of KV 55"). - 2003 OLZ 98: 47 — accepts akhet-en-hies (Gabolde 2009 n. 80). - 2016 *The Unknown Tutankhamun* — ch. 5 reviews the dating of KV62 items; p. 80 on Tutankhamun's (slight) involvement with Amarna (Kemp 2016 p. 31); p. 12 on near/far feet (Dietrich). Matić's 2018 OLZ review exists (not read). - 2019 Liège chapter on the restoration of Amun (pp. 260–267): title only. - Sequence: from the joint review and HKW: Akhenaten → Ankhkheperure Smenkhkare (later renamed Neferneferuaten), whose widow Ankhetkheperure (identity open; Meritaten conceded as bearer of the name) succeeded him → Tutankhamun. ## 6. Dimitri Laboury (2002; 2010; 2019) **Verification:** 2002 (a); 2019 chapters (a); 2010 (c). ### 6.1 Laboury 2002 (a) — iconography of "Neferneferuaten, Tutankhamun's predecessor" - Adopts Gabolde's model "largely" (n. 32: "j'adhère largement au modèle proposé par M. Gabolde") but **rejects the Akhenaten–Meritaten coregency**: it would require a pharaoh to be demoted to queen to marry Smenkhkare and then become king again; "lorsque l'on devient pharaon, on meurt pharaon". The joint mentions of Neferneferuaten and Akhenaten are legitimation rhetoric (Hatshepsut parallel), not proof of contemporaneity. - Neferneferuaten = Meritaten, widow of Ankhkheperure Smenkhkare, whose prenomen she took over; year 3 (Pawah graffito) "sans doute sa dernière année de règne"; return to Thebes/Amun under way (p. 10; n. 33 Gabolde 1998: 161–162). - Iconographic corpus: the faces on the KV62 objects usurped by Tutankhamun (statuettes JE 60714, JE 60710; second coffin JE 60670; canopic chest goddesses JE 60686; coffinettes JE 60688; canopic stoppers JE 60687) form a coherent portrait type distinct from Tutankhamun's and from Akhenaten's, compared with Louvre 14.715 (Meritaten as princess); the most "quadrangular" faces (second coffin, canopic set), whose texts are traditionally Osirian, belong to the end of Neferneferuaten's reign (pp. 9–10; n. 26: the coffinettes' original inscriptions were in the name of Ankh(et)kheperure mery-Waenre Neferneferuaten). ### 6.2 Laboury 2010, *Akhénaton* (c) Cited by Gabolde 2013 (pp. 317–319, 322–323, 350–351) and by Dietrich 2024 for the stelae and block 826/VIIIA (pp. 339–343) and for the "two Horuses" objection to coregencies (pp. 87–88). Belmonte 2013 calls "Laboury 2011" the "most recently published manual" endorsing Gabolde's proposal. ### 6.3 Laboury 2019 (a) — the Liège catalogue narrative (Bayer & Laboury, "Les protagonistes du drame" 122–129; Laboury, "Aton vs Amon" 238–243) Explicit sequence, with Laboury's absolute dates: 1. Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten (name change year 5, c. 1341 BC), 17 years; dies c. 1329 BC "de manière assez inopinée" amid a plague and a military defeat by the Hittites in the north (238–241). Nefertiti: last dated mention year 16; dies aged not much over 30, before her husband (125); she is his first cousin on both sides, Akhmim family, Ay possibly her father (124). 2. **Meritaten**, eldest surviving child (aged 13–14), "à l'instar de son aïeule Hatshepsout … se fait assez rapidement couronner pharaon(ne)", with the complicity of Ankhesenpaaten, setting aside their brother Tutankhaten (c. 6); reign "ne dépassant pas trois années"; she initiates the return to the traditional cults ("il est aujourd'hui parfaitement établi qu'elle initie assez rapidement l'abandon de ce système"); dies before 16; part of her royal funerary equipment reused for Tutankhamun; her reign survives in Manetho's sources (125–126, 241). 3. **Tutankhaten/Tutankhamun**, son of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, born c. year 12 (c. 1335), crowned "vers la fin de l'automne 1327", nine years, dies winter 1318–1317 (127–128); Ay (128–129); Horemheb from c. 1314 (129). - **Smenkhkare/Zannanza are not mentioned at all** in either chapter; the "Pour en savoir plus" points to Laboury 2010 and Gabolde 2015. Absolute dates (Akhenaten's death 1329, Tutankhamun's accession 1327) leave c. 2–3 years for Meritaten alone, i.e. the Zannanza episode of Gabolde 1998 is silently absorbed or dropped. - KV55: not discussed in these chapters; Tiye and Akhenaten "rejoints" in the Amarna royal tomb, later moved to Thebes "peut-être" by Tutankhamun (123). - Note: the same catalogue contains Gabolde's "Les chromosomes de Toutankhamon" (276–281) and Eaton-Krauss's "L'après Amarna" (260–267) — not obtained (c). ## 7. Hornung, Krauss & Warburton (eds) 2006, *Ancient Egyptian Chronology* (b) Read: pp. 36, 206–208, 492–493 (+ n. 73 of the Hittite section). Hornung's text (p. 207, verbatim, OCR-corrected): "It is now certain that not only a man Ankhkheprure, but also a woman Ankhetkheprure ruled between Akhenaten and Tutankhamun. The king is first known as Ankhkheprure (throne name) Smenkhkare djeser-kheperu (personal name), later as Ankhkheprure mery-Neferkheprure/Waenre and Nefernefruaton mery-Waenre. The two names of the queen … are nearly the same as the king's later set of names and epitheta. The 'funerary' epitheton akhet-en-hies (beneficial for her husband) is hers alone and indicates that she succeeded her husband Ankhkheprure. Her identity remains problematic; Kiya, Nefertiti, and Merytaton have been proposed. Items of her funerary equipment were adapted for Tutankhamun … Josephus lists three rulers named Akhenkherres < Ankh(et)kheprure, i.e. two male rulers (one of which might be due to a corruption in the text) and a female, described as a king's daughter. … Possibly the figures reflect an original 2 years and some months. The mummy of King Ankhkheprure is identifiable as the occupant of KV 55; his age at death was 18–22 years (Murnane, OLZ 96, 2001, 22)." - Wine dockets (pp. 207–208): 16 successive vintages at Amarna (13 = years 5–17 of Akhenaten, 3 of successors); years 1–2 of King Ankhkheprure with the vintner title hry-b'h; the last vintage, a year 1 with the reintroduced title hry-k3mw, belongs to Ankhetkheprure or to Tutankhamun; the Pairi graffito year 3 "seems to relate to the king, but the queen is not excluded (Gabolde, Akhenaton, 161–162, 184)"; year 3 also on oil labels continuing years 1–2 of King Ankhkheprure; his accession c. II Akhet, "which may have coincided with the occurrence of Akhenaten's death" (i.e. no coregency). - p. 206: Akhenaten "does not seem to have been preserved in the Manethonian tradition. The conventional identification of Horos with Akhenaten is problematic." - n. 73 (Hittite synchronisms): Gabolde's Zannanza = Smenkhkare "is not probable; cf. the sceptical judgement of Eaton-Krauss & Krauss, BiOr 58 (2001), col. 96." - Table pp. 492–493: Akhenaten 1353–1336; Smenkhkare/Nefernefruaten Ankhkheprure 1336–1334; Nefernefruaten Ankhetkheprure 1334–?; Tutankhamun ?–1324; Aya 1323–1320; Haremhab 1319–1292. - Position on KV55 and parentage: KV55 = King Ankhkheprure (Smenkhkare); Tutankhamun's parentage not addressed in the pages read. ## 8. Barry Kemp (2012 (c); 2016 (a)) Kemp 2016, "Ranefer's sovereign", *Akhetaten Sun* 22/1: 12–31 (read in full): - Starting point: the door-jamb of Ranefer's house (N49.18, objects 34147.59/.60/.64) restored after the knobs of box Carter 1k as "Ankhkheperura beloved of Neferkheperura / Nefernefruaten beloved of Waenra", followed by a *masculine* definite article in "my lord" (p. 13). - Box 1k: the presence of Akhenaten's cartouches is "a gesture of respect to the king, now dead", not a coregency; "the last part of the inscription makes it as clear as one could wish that he was married to Akhenaten's eldest daughter, Meretaten" (p. 15). Coregency should be invoked only on strong evidence. - Tomb of Meryre II: Ankhkheperure Smenkhkare djeserkheperu + Meritaten; the year-12 date applies to the event, not the carving; "no compelling reason … for doubting that Ankh-kheperura Smenkhkara, married to Meretaten, ruled for a time after Akhenaten's death"; Smenkhkare is another name of Neferneferuaten (pp. 15–16). - Small Aten Temple faience ring 8523 of Ankhkheperure under the stone pavement is stratigraphically unconnected with the year-13 docket (pp. 17–18) — removes an argument for an early Smenkhkare. - Faience rings: the "t" under mr/ankh is as easily r or n; "the faience rings provide a weak basis on which to found a theory that Ankh-kheperura was a female ruler" (pp. 18–20). - North Riverside Palace paintings and UC 410: Nefernefruaten-Akhetenhiyes accepted as a reading, but interpreted as the *queen's* name (Meritaten = "Devoted to her husband") absorbed into her husband's cartouche, "whilst emphasising the meaning of the name"; UC 410 re-cut after Akhenaten's death, replacing Nefertiti's cartouche by the new king's and Meritaten-as-princess by the combined cartouche (pp. 20–26). - KV62 shrines: the .ti/.t endings are 2nd-person forms (Nut text parallel), not remnants of a female owner; Engelbach's re-cut cartouches on the second shrine explained by re-assignment after a premature death (pp. 26–29). Reeves's mask attribution noted without endorsement. - Manetho: table of J/A/E variants (p. 30); "nothing is gained by citing him in support of one theory or another". - Conclusion (p. 30–31): "a husband-and-wife very close to Akhenaten (the new queen being Akhenaten's eldest daughter) becoming king and queen immediately following Akhenaten's death and then … replaced by … Tutankhaten … and Ankhsenpa-aten"; the female-king reconstruction "possible … but seems to me not very plausible"; "Smenkhkara thus stands as the last probable ruler at Amarna". No coregency; no KV55 discussion; no view on Tutankhamun's parents; Dahamunzu not discussed. - Dodson 2020 n. (p. 113 notes): "Cf, however, the objections of Kemp 2016" against Gabolde's akhet-en-hies. Dietrich 2024 lists Kemp 2016 among the "one name-changing ruler" school with Harris, Newberry, Reeves 2023 and Willeitner. - What would refute Kemp: an unambiguous feminine form or female figure under the Ankhkheperure cartouche on a large-scale monument (Dietrich 2024 argues the Hermopolis pillar join 406/VII+777/VIII+826/VIII is exactly that). ## 9. Jacobus van Dijk (2000 (c); 2009 (a)) - 2009: the "birth scene" in room γ of the royal tomb shows the *reborn Meketaten* (name fits the traces: t + seated woman, contour of k), not the birth of Tutankhaten; Gabolde's seated-man-with-flail sign is anachronistic; the child is female; same conclusion reached independently by J.R. Harris (Papyrus 24/2, 2004). Consequently the room-γ argument for Tutankhaten as son of Nefertiti falls; van Dijk expresses no view on the succession itself in this article. He calls the Eaton-Krauss & Krauss verdict "methodically unsound" (n. 13) and lists Gabolde's earlier statements (1993; 1998: 118–124; 2001: 24–27). - 2000 (Oxford History) not obtained; 2008 (JARCE 44, Horemheb's reign length) is cited by Belmonte 2013 as part of the "revolution" in Amarna chronology. ## 10. Joyce Tyldesley (1998; 2018) (c) Neither book obtained (archive.org lending only). Not summarised here to avoid presenting (c) as (a). ## 11. Joachim Willeitner 2022a–b (a) — the Munich ivory ÄS 7342 - Object: ivory plaque 8.1 × 4.4 cm on a bone (bos taurus scapula) backing, ex-von Bissing collection, acquired 2008, first published here; Aten disc with rays (hands missing), garland of a light pavilion, and eight columns: Aten's *later* didactic name (so after year 9) with epithets; "Lord of the Two Lands Neferkheperure Waenre / Lord of Appearances Akhenaten, given life, great in his lifetime"; then "Lord of the Two Lands **Ankhkheperure mery-Waenre** / Lord of Appearances **Neferneferuaten mery-Akhenaten**" (Willeitner's reading of the last epithet, 2022a p. 40, with thanks to Chr. Bayer). **Dietrich 2024 (p. 101) transliterates the same epithet as Ꜣḫ.t-n-hj=s "effective for her husband"** — the two editions disagree on precisely the sign-group that Gabolde 1998 re-read; Willeitner does not discuss Gabolde's reading for this object (he mentions it only for UC 410, 2022b p. 12). - Historical conclusions (2022b): both names carry identical titles ("nb t3wy", "nb ḫ'w") without "s3 R'", so the two are "protokollarisch als Regenten gleichgestellt" and the object is "ein sicherer Beleg für eine Koregenz" (p. 12); the coregent is a *male* Smenkhkare (the Meryre II scene with the "great royal wife" Meritaten is his main argument; a female would have been named Neferneferuaten-Nefertiti as on all house altars, p. 19); Smenkhkare dropped the nomen Smenkhkare late in favour of the throne name only (p. 10); dockets name only his year 1, years 2–3 could be Tutankhamun's; Pawah graffito left aside; after the death of both men, Nefertiti "als ranghöchste Überlebende … als Anch(et)-cheperu-Re" may have governed alone or with Meritaten; alternatively Meritaten as Ankhetkheperure (p. 19–20); KV55 possibly Smenkhkare, "nach Ausweis genetischer Untersuchungen … Vater von Tutanchamun" (p. 19). He also discusses box 1k (Akhenaten with extra "living in truth" titles + Ankhkheperure mery-Neferkheperure/Neferneferuaten mery-Waenre + great royal wife Meritaten) as proof of a male coregent (p. 20). Relies on Habicht 2019 (self-published, 4th ed.). - Verdict: a genuine new attestation (third object juxtaposing Akhenaten and Neferneferuaten, with UC 410 and box 1k — Dietrich p. 102), but the historical reading is a minority "one male king" view; Dietrich (pp. 101–102) notes that Smenkhkare's name "is not among those present" and that the title "Semenchkare als Koregent" presupposes the one-ruler model. ## 12. Charlotte Dietrich 2024, CRE 2023 (a) - Method: coregency requires either a double date (none in the New Kingdom; accession dating makes them impractical) or a depiction of two living, equally royal figures in one scene without hierarchical proportion (pp. 95–97, after Murnane 1977). - Amarna results (pp. 98–105): Amenhotep III–Akhenaten: no qualifying evidence (Soleb, Sesebi, Kheruef, Huya lintel, 3rd-pylon barque); Smenkhkare: appears with Akhenaten on *one* object only (Cairo JE 62172/Carter 405) and in no scene → "at best circumstantial"; Neferneferuaten: named with Akhenaten on three objects (Munich ÄS 7342; box 1k; UC 410) and shown as a female coregent on the Hermopolis pillar 406/VII + 777/VIIIC (Johnson 2020's join: female with tall crown) + 826/VIIIA (Neferneferuaten + Ankhesenpaaten), plus the anonymous Berlin stelae 17813/20716 and seal 21331 → "the coregency of Akhenaten and Neferneferuaten currently [is] the only Amarnian coregency with substantial and convincing evidence" (p. 105). The order Akhenaten–Neferneferuaten in the box and ivory supports Gabolde's reconstruction of 826/VIIIA (fig. 3). - Identity: left open; two-ruler model adopted for method's sake; Meritaten's absence from the pillar scene explained either by Gabolde's identification or by her promotion to Smenkhkare's queen (p. 104); sequence Smenkhkare/Neferneferuaten "still up to debate" (n. 18: Allen 2016 and Dodson reversed to Smenkhkare first; "arguments … based on the dipinto in the tomb of Pairy (TT 139) as presented by e.g. Dodson (2020b) have been convincingly rejected by a corrected reading by Reeves (2023)"); Krauss 2007's Nefertiti cartouche on seal 21331 "quite far from certain" (n. 11). - Bibliography used to identify the additional targets (all verified in her list, pp. 108–115). ## 13. Juan Antonio Belmonte (2013 (b); 2022 (c)) - 2013 ("DNA, Wine & Eclipses"): reviews nine Dahamunzu candidates; summarises Gabolde, Reeves 2002 and Krauss 2007 (pp. 424–427). His own model (pp. 431–436, following K. Phizackerley's re-reading of the JAMA STR data): KV55 ≠ Akhenaten (allele D7S820 argument) but = Smenkhkare, a younger full brother of Akhenaten, married to KV35YL (a daughter of Amenhotep III, "perhaps Baketaten") and father of Tutankhaten (born c. year 10–11); Smenkhkare briefly coregent c. year 12–13 with Meritaten as his great royal wife, died; then Nefertiti made coregent, becoming Ankh(et)kheperure Neferneferuaten (feminine forms optional); after Akhenaten's death in year 17 (Nibhururiya = Neferkheperure) Nefertiti as Dahamunzu wrote to Suppiluliuma, Zannanza was killed, and she took full power with her own year count and later the epithet akhet-en-hies; solar-eclipse and temple-orientation arguments fix the absolute chronology (his fig. 7: "Ankhetkheperure Neferneferuaten, possibly Nefertiti, was the Dakhamunzu … although her daughter Meritaten cannot be a priori ruled out"). - 2022 "Nefertiti Strikes Back! A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Approach for the End of the Amarna Period" (Fs Kondo, pp. 53–86): only the title and pages verified; presumably the updated version of the 2013 model. Not read — its content must not be inferred. ## 14. Manetho and the female "Akenkheres" ### 14.1 The texts (a) **Josephus, *Contra Apionem* 1.96–97 (Greek, Niese; file `sources/Josephus_ContraApionem_1.93-102_Greek_Niese_Perseus.txt`):** … τοῦ δὲ Ὦρος τριακονταὲξ καὶ μῆνας πέντε. τοῦ δὲ θυγάτηρ Ἀκεγχερὴς δώδεκα καὶ μῆνα ἕνα. τῆς δὲ Ῥάθωτις ἀδελφὸς ἐννέα. τοῦ δὲ Ἀκεγχήρης δώδεκα καὶ μῆνας πέντε. τοῦ δὲ Ἀκεγχήρης ἕτερος δώδεκα καὶ μῆνας τρεῖς. τοῦ δὲ Ἅρμαϊς τέσσαρα καὶ μῆνα ἕνα. τοῦ δὲ Ῥαμέσσης ἓν καὶ μῆνας τέσσαρας. τοῦ δὲ Ἁρμέσσης Μιαμοῦν ἑξηκονταὲξ καὶ μῆνας δύο. τοῦ δὲ Ἀμένωφις δεκαεννέα καὶ μῆνας ἕξ. τοῦ δὲ Σέθως ὁ καὶ Ῥαμέσσης … Waddell (Loeb 1940, Fr. 50, pp. 101–103): "then his son Orus for 36 years 5 months; then his daughter Acenchêrês for 12 years 1 month; then her brother Rathôtis for 9 years; then his son Acenchêrês for 12 years 5 months, his son Acenchêrês II for 12 years 3 months, his son Harmais for 4 years 1 month, his son Ramessês for 1 year 4 months, his son Harmessês Miamûn for 66 years 2 months, his son Amenôphis for 19 years 6 months, and his son Sethôs, also called Ramessês". (Waddell's n. 1 on p. 101 records the traditional equations with Tutankhamun = Chebrês, Ay = Acherrês from CAH ii.) **Theophilus (Fr. 51, Epitome; Waddell pp. 105–107):** Orus 36 y. 5 m.; "his daughter [Acenchêrês] 12 y. 1 m."; "[Rathôtis] 9 y."; Acenchêrês 12 y. 5 m.; Ac[enchêrês II] 12 y. 3 m.; "his son Harmais 4 y. 1 m." — i.e. the Josephan list. **Africanus (Fr. 52, Waddell p. 113):** 9. Orus 37; 10. Acherrês 32; 11. Rathôs 6; 12. Chebrês 12; 13. Acherrês 12; 14. Armesis 5; 15. Ramessês 1; 16. Amenôphath 19. (No gender; the "daughter" has become Acherrês 32 years.) **Eusebius, Greek via Syncellus (Fr. 53, Waddell p. 115):** 8. Orus 36 (or 38); 9. Achenchersês [12]; [Athôris 39 (? 9)]; [Cencherês] 16 ("about this time Moses led the Jews …"); then Acherrês 8, Cherrês 15, Armais 5. **Eusebius, Armenian (Fr. 53, Waddell pp. 117–119):** Orus …; Achencheres 16 ("in his time Moses …"); Acherres 8; Cherres 15; Armais also called Danaus 5; Ramesses also called Aegyptus 68. Kemp 2016 p. 30 prints the same J/A/E synopsis (from Gardiner 1961: 444). ### 14.2 What the authors make of it - **Krauss / HKW 2006** (p. 36, editors; p. 207, Hornung): Akencheres < Ankh(et)kheprure; the "daughter of a king" is the queen Ankhetkheperure whose existence "was archaeologically first confirmed in the 1970s" (i.e. by Krauss 1978); Josephus's *three* Akenkheres = two male rulers (one perhaps a textual corruption) + one female; "12 years and some months" for each may reflect an original 2 years and some months; Akhenaten himself is absent from Manetho, and Horos ≠ Akhenaten (p. 206). Kemp's synopsis also notes the Armenian 16 years. For Krauss the "daughter" fits Meritaten (his queen Ankhetkheperure); he does not use Manetho to identify her further in the pages I could read. - **Gabolde's school:** Laboury 2019: 126 (a): a trace of Meritaten's reign "semble avoir subsisté dans les archives dont se servit … Manéthon". Gabolde 1998's own treatment (c) not seen. - **Allen 2009: 18** (a for this paragraph): "for what it is worth, Manetho's tradition that a king of the late Eighteenth Dynasty was succeeded by 'his daughter Akenkherēs' points to a daughter rather than Nefertiti" — used for his (then) Neferneferuaten-tasherit hypothesis, since withdrawn (Dodson 2020: 129). - **Dodson 2020: 104–105** (b): Manetho follows the Ramesside canon (Amenophis = Amenhotep III, Orus = Horemheb) but then inserts Acenchêrês "his daughter", Rathôtis "her brother", Acenchêrês "his son", Acenchêrês II, Harmais (dittography of Horemheb): "a garbled, misordered remembrance of the Amarna kings. Most interesting is the recognition of there having been a female ruler during the period, with 'Acenchêrês' a passable potential rendering of 'Ankhkheperure', as well as potential distortion of 'Akhenaten'. One king is missing, presumably the ephemeral Smenkhkare". p. 128: support for Meryetaten "has been garnered from Manetho's calling his late Eighteenth Dynasty female ruler her predecessor's 'daughter' — but this now comes up against the apparently insurmountable problem of her being named alongside Neferneferuaten on the KV62 box fragment". Dodson's own Neferneferuaten is Nefertiti, so for him the "daughter" is a garbling. - **Kemp 2016: 30** (a): "We do not know how Manetho worked … nothing is gained by citing him in support of one theory or another." - Assessment for the report: the Josephan text is the only one that preserves gender and filiation ("his daughter"); Africanus/Eusebius lose both; the 12-year figures are unusable as they stand; the "daughter" can be read as evidence for a *king's daughter* (Meritaten, or Neferneferuaten-tasherit) against Nefertiti, but Dodson and Kemp show why the argument is weak (garbled order; Nefertiti's identity could be obscured; Manetho's sources unknown). ## 15. Everything found for 2019 – September 2026 (plus the immediately preceding items), with verdicts Verdict key: **NEW-EVIDENCE** = adds or re-reads a primary source; **REINTERPRETATION** = new argument on known sources; **SYNTHESIS/POPULAR** = no change to the evidence base. Verification code in brackets. 1. **Tawfik, Thomas & Hegenbarth-Reichardt 2018**, MDAIK 74: 177–192 (Dietrich) / 179–195 (Bartos) [c]. Per Dietrich's citations (pp. 179–181, figs 1, 3) it re-publishes the KV62 box GEM 354 / JE 61500a-b / Carter 1k (Akhenaten – Ankhkheperure mery-Neferkheperure Neferneferuaten mery-Waenre – great royal wife Meritaten) from the GEM conservation work; the title claims "new evidence for Tutankhamun's parents". Content unverified (DAI platform inaccessible). Verdict: potentially NEW-EVIDENCE (re-documentation of 1k); must be read before the report cites it. 2. **Lull 2019**, Aula Orientalis 37/1: 61–90 [c]: chronology of the Amenhotep III→IV transition; Dietrich (p. 99) cites his comments (p. 80) on the short-coregency variant. Verdict: outside the Smenkhkare question; SYNTHESIS. 3. **Connor & Laboury (eds) 2019**, Liège exhibition catalogue [a for Laboury's two chapters; c for Gabolde "Les chromosomes de Toutankhamon" 276–281 and Eaton-Krauss 260–267]: Meritaten reigns <3 years after Akhenaten, begins the restoration, Tutankhaten set aside then crowned autumn 1327; Smenkhkare unmentioned. Verdict: SYNTHESIS/POPULAR restating Gabolde 2015/Laboury 2010; useful as the current wording of the Meritaten school. 4. **Reeves 2019** (North Wall/ Nefertiti burial follow-ups) — dossier D; not treated here. 5. **Dodson 2020a**, *Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt* [b]: Nefertiti = Neferneferuaten, Smenkhkare a brief coregent who predeceased Akhenaten; Manetho pp. 104–105; alternatives (Meritaten; Allen's withdrawn tasherit; Angenot) pp. 128–129; notes list Kemp 2016's objections. Reviewed by Brown, JARCE 58 (2022) [c]. Verdict: SYNTHESIS. 6. **Dodson 2020b**, "On the graffito in Theban Tomb 139", *Guardian of Ancient Egypt* (Fs Hawass) [c; title verified in ToC]: uses the TT 139 dipinto for the order Smenkhkare → Neferneferuaten; Dietrich n. 18: "convincingly rejected by a corrected reading by Reeves (2023)". Verdict: REINTERPRETATION, contested. 7. **Johnson, W.R. 2020**, "The Amarna 'coregents' talatat block from Hermopolis and a new join", ibid. 759–769 [c; title verified]: join 777/VIII to the "coregency block" 406/VII — the second tall figure is a woman in a tall (blue) crown, i.e. a female coregent beside Akhenaten; with 826/VIIIA (Neferneferuaten + Ankhesenpaaten) probably the same monument (Allen 1991; Kawai 2023: 117–118). Verdict: **NEW-EVIDENCE** (new join) — the strongest post-2019 addition; it strengthens a female coregent Neferneferuaten but not her identity. Not read; known through Dietrich 2024 pp. 102–104 and figs 1–2, 5. 8. **ARCE podcast 2021** (Williamson) [b]: popular; Nefertiti-as-king consensus talk. Verdict: POPULAR. 9. **Bartos 2021**, ENiM 14 [b]: the golden armchair was a lion-legged, Atenist chair altered at least twice (Aten names → Amun names), arms and lion heads added under Tutankhamun; Bartos accepts "two rulers: Smenkhkare and then the female king Neferneferuaten" (p. 277) and Gabolde's view (OLZ 111, 2016) that the chair was made for a predecessor, but she attributes it to Akhenaten's reign rather than Neferneferuaten's. Verdict: object study; no change to the succession. 10. **Lightbody 2021**, JAEA 5 — dossier D. 11. **Willeitner 2022a–b**, MAAT 23: 32–42; 24: 10–23 [a]: first edition of Munich ÄS 7342 (see §11). Verdict: **NEW-EVIDENCE** (new attestation of Akhenaten + Ankhkheperure mery-Waenre / Neferneferuaten [mery-Akhenaten *or* akhet-en-hies]); the historical conclusion (male Smenkhkare as coregent) is a minority reading; the epithet reading must be collated (Willeitner vs Dietrich). 12. **Belmonte 2022**, "Nefertiti Strikes Back!", Fs Kondo 53–86 [c]: title/pages only. Verdict: unknown (probably REINTERPRETATION continuing Belmonte 2013: Nefertiti = Dahamunzu; KV55 = Smenkhkare, brother of Akhenaten and father of Tutankhamun). 13. **Reeves 2022**, "Isseki nichō: One Ring, Two Reigns (MMA 59.151.2)", Fs Kondo 351–358 [c]: title only; a ring in New York read as naming two reigns — potentially a re-reading of a primary object; must be read. 14. **Santini 2022**, JHIE 5: 141–154 [c]: embargoed to 2028 (from earlier search); content unknown. 15. **Habicht, M.E.**, *Semenchkare – Phantom-König(in) von Achet-Aton* (self-published, 4th ed. 2019; further editions to 2022) [c]: used by Willeitner; not peer-reviewed. Verdict: not scholarship of record. 16. **Angenot, V.** (ARCE 2019 paper; press 2022) [c]: two-daughters/"alternative identities" proposal recorded by Dodson 2020: 129; unpublished. Verdict: cannot be cited as published. 17. **Kawai 2023**, "Neferneferuaten from the tomb of Tutankhamun revisited", Fs Reeves 109–121 [c]: Neferneferuaten = Nefertiti, coregent after Smenkhkare's death and sole ruler after Akhenaten; 826/VIIIA belongs with 406/VII (pp. 117–118). Verdict: REINTERPRETATION within the Reeves/Dodson school. 18. **Reeves 2023**, "The phantom 'Temple of Ankhkheperure in Thebes'", Fs Strudwick 263–274 [c; title verified on the publisher's ToC]: Gardiner's "mansion of Ankhkheperure" in the TT 139 graffito re-read (the "temple" is a phantom — per the earlier search, Aakheperure/Amenhotep II's); epithets referring to Akhenaten belong to the coregency and were dropped after his death (p. 270 per Dietrich n. 15); Dietrich accepts his rejection of Dodson 2020b. Verdict: **NEW-EVIDENCE** (re-reading of a primary text); must be read for the report's treatment of the year-3 graffito. 19. **Reeves 2023** "Forman head" (from earlier search) [c] — dossier D. 20. **Dietrich 2024**, CRE 2023: 93–115 [a]: methodological; only the Akhenaten–Neferneferuaten coregency is well evidenced; Smenkhkare's coregency "at best circumstantial"; identity left open; order undecided. Verdict: REINTERPRETATION (best current review of the coregency evidence; open access). 21. **Sousa, Pieke & Bagh (eds) 2024** — Broschat, "Tutorial: 'How to change your predecessors' names into Tutankhamun'" 75–87 [b]: technical documentation of re-inscribed cartouches on KV62 gold objects. Verdict: NEW-EVIDENCE of a technical kind (confirms re-inscription; does not name the predecessor beyond Neferneferuaten). 22. **Norris & O'Donnell 2024**, Agora 59/3 [c]: popular. SYNTHESIS. 23. **Hawass 2022–2026 DNA/"Nefertiti mummy" announcements** [c; Explorersweb Jan. 2026 file]: no publication; no change. 24. **Kemp 2016** [a] and **Krauss 2007** [c], **Martin 2009b** [c], **Helck 2001** [c], **Gabolde 2005** [c] — pre-window items; see §§8, 3, 17.2. 25. Searched with no hits: any new Smenkhkare/Neferneferuaten attestation 2023–2026 other than the Munich ivory; any printed challenge to Van der Perre's year-16 graffito; any 2025–2026 article in JEA/JARCE/GM/BIFAO/ZÄS/SAK/ENiM/RdE on the succession (the search was exhausted before a venue-by-venue sweep of 2025–2026 could be completed — see §17.3). **Overall verdict:** since 2019 the evidence base has changed in three respects only: (i) Johnson's 2020 talatat join (female coregent depicted beside Akhenaten), (ii) the Munich ivory (Willeitner 2022; a third Akhenaten + Neferneferuaten juxtaposition, epithet reading disputed), (iii) Reeves 2023's re-reading of the TT 139 graffito (removing the "temple of Ankhkheperure" and, per Dietrich, Dodson's sequence argument). Everything else is reinterpretation or synthesis. Nothing found since 2019 settles the identity of Neferneferuaten; the Meritaten school (Gabolde, Laboury) and the "one male king" school (Kemp, Willeitner) remain in print alongside the Nefertiti school (Reeves, Dodson, Kawai) and the "Nefertiti regent + Smenkhkare + queen Meritaten" scheme of Krauss. ## 16. Comparison table | Question | Gabolde (1998–2015) [a/c] | Krauss (1978; 2007) [c] | Laboury (2002; 2019) [a] | Hornung/Krauss/Warburton 2006 [b] | Kemp 2016 [a] | Willeitner 2022 [a] | Belmonte 2013 [b] | Dietrich 2024 [a] | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Identity of Neferneferuaten (Ankh(et)kheperure … akhet-en-hies) | Meritaten, sole ruler after Smenkhkare's death; coregent of Akhenaten (1998) | male Smenkhkare renamed Neferneferuaten; the *feminine* Ankhetkheperure = Meritaten, his widow | Meritaten (no coregency with Akhenaten; 2019: crowned straight after Akhenaten's death) | a woman, "Kiya, Nefertiti and Merytaton have been proposed"; succeeded her husband Ankhkheprure | the same man as Smenkhkare; "Akhetenhiyes" = Meritaten's name inside his cartouche | male Smenkhkare (coregent); Nefertiti or Meritaten may have ruled afterwards as Ankh(et)kheperure | Nefertiti (Meritaten "cannot be a priori ruled out") | open; a female coregent of Akhenaten is proven by the Hermopolis pillar | | Identity/placement of Smenkhkare | Zannanza, after Akhenaten's death, brief; husband of Meritaten | son-in-law of Akhenaten; first successor after an interregnum under regent Nefertiti; no coregency; ≥ year 3 | (2002) predecessor-husband of Meritaten; (2019) omitted | first successor, years 1–3, no coregency; = KV55 | first successor = Neferneferuaten, no coregency; last ruler at Amarna | younger full brother? — coregent of Akhenaten after year 9, died c. year 1 | younger full brother of Akhenaten, coregent c. year 12–13, died; = KV55 | coregency "at best circumstantial"; order relative to Neferneferuaten undecided | | Length/nature of each reign | Smenkhkare < 1 year; Meritaten to year 3 (own count) | Nefertiti regency (months?); Smenkhkare/Neferneferuaten 3 years; Meritaten short | Meritaten < 3 years (1329–1327) | King Ankhkheprure 1336–1334 (years 1–3); queen 1334–? | one king, c. 3 years | Smenkhkare year 1 only | Nefertiti coregent late years + ≥ 3 own years | not addressed | | Dahamunzu / Nibhururiya | Meritaten / Akhenaten | Nefertiti (regent) / Akhenaten (1978: Meritaten) | not discussed (2019 narrative has no Hittite episode) | not discussed in pages read | not discussed | not discussed | Nefertiti / Akhenaten | not discussed | | KV55 | Akhenaten (c. 26–27) | Smenkhkare/Ankhkheprure (18–22) | — | Ankhkheprure, 18–22 | — | possibly Smenkhkare | Smenkhkare, brother of Akhenaten | — | | Tutankhamun's parents | Akhenaten × Nefertiti (KV35YL = Nefertiti, cousin marriage) | not reported | Akhenaten × Nefertiti | — | — | KV55 male (Smenkhkare?) | Smenkhkare × KV35YL (daughter of Amenhotep III) | — | | What would refute | Neferneferuaten and "great royal wife Meritaten" as two persons on one object (Allen/Dodson/Kemp say box 1k does this); Nefertiti alive after Akhenaten | Neferneferuaten (masc.) + Smenkhkare on one object; year-3 graffito proven female | as Gabolde; plus a datable Smenkhkare before year 17 | queen's identity — any secure filiation | a female figure/ending under Ankhkheperure on a monument (Hermopolis pillar) | akhet-en-hies confirmed on ÄS 7342; box 1k accepted as two-person text | KV55 = Akhenaten (Gabolde 2013's DNA model) | a double date or a Smenkhkare–Akhenaten scene | Positions of Murnane 2001 and Eaton-Krauss & Krauss 2001 (both c): female Neferneferuaten married to Akhenaten (Murnane); Meritaten bore the name at some point but the box 1k names her separately (E-K & K); no proof of Nefertiti's death; Zannanza improbable; KV55 age 18–22 → Smenkhkare rather than Akhenaten. ## 17. Coverage and gaps ### 17.1 Obtained and read in full (a) Gabolde 2009, 2013; Laboury 2002; Bayer & Laboury 2019; Laboury 2019; Kemp 2016; Willeitner 2022a, 2022b; Dietrich 2024; van Dijk 2009; Josephus/Waddell fragments 50–53. ### 17.2 The ten additional targets — access outcome 1. Krauss 2007 (AoF 34/2: 294–318): **not obtained** (de Gruyter closed; both DOIs; no abstract anywhere; ResearchGate/academia blocked). Sequence reconstructed from Belmonte 2013, Miller 2007, Dietrich 2024, WiBiLex 2008 (§3.3). Parts 1–3 of "Revidierte Überlegungen zum Ende der Amarnazeit": **not identified** by title in any bibliography I could read; probably among Krauss's 1997 papers (MDOG 129; MDAIK 53) — unverified. 2. Eaton-Krauss & Krauss 2001 (BiOr 58: 91–97): **not obtained** — Peeters Online Journals lists the review section (cols 72–123, DOI 10.2143/BIOR.58.1.2015709) as "open access" but the download page demands a subscription. Content assembled from six citing works (§5). 3. Tawfik, Thomas & Hegenbarth-Reichardt 2018 (MDAIK 74): **not obtained** (DAI publications platform behind Anubis; no DOI in CrossRef/OpenAlex/Zenodo). Object = box Carter 1k/GEM 354 per Dietrich's citation; the "new evidence for Tutankhamun's parents" claim itself is unverified. 4. Willeitner 2022a, 2022b (MAAT 23, 24): **obtained and read in full** from smaek.de (PDFs of the whole issues saved); see §11. 5. Kemp 2016 (Akhetaten Sun 22/1): **obtained and read in full** from theamarnaresearchfoundation.org (`Articles/Sun2016 Spring Vol 22 No 1.pdf`); see §8. (Fall 2016 issue also saved; no succession article.) 6. Belmonte 2022: volume identified — Kawai & Davies (eds), *The Star Who Appears in Thebes. Studies in Honour of Jiro Kondo*, Abercromby Press, 27 June 2022, ISBN 978-1-912246-13-7, pp. 53–86 (publisher's ToC saved as `sources/Abercromby_2022_Kondo_Festschrift_TOC.pdf/.txt`). Text **not obtained**. 7. Lull 2019: record verified (Aula Orientalis 37/1: 61–90; Dialnet 8154663); the UB-IPOA PDF link is temporarily down. **Not obtained**. 8. Martin 2009b (Fs Malek, OLA 185: 343–359): **not obtained** (Peeters). Known from Dietrich 2024 and Dodson 2020 as a study of UC 410. 9. Helck 2001 (SDAIK 29): **not obtained**; Dietrich cites pp. 61–62 (block 826/VIIIA; year 1/year 3 sequence of the names). 10. Gabolde 2005 (Akhénaton et l'époque amarnienne 273–286): **not obtained**; Dietrich cites p. 281 (UC 410); Bartos n. 6 lists it among the studies of reused KV62 objects. Also processed from the same list: the Miskatonic PDF is fictitious and unused; the Dietrich 2024 file exists (three identical copies, see §0). ### 17.3 Other gaps - Gabolde 1998 and 2015, Krauss 1978/1997/2008, Murnane 1995/2001, Eaton-Krauss 2016/2019, Laboury 2010, Kemp 2012, Tyldesley 1998/2018, van Dijk 2000, Reeves 2022/2023, Kawai 2023, Johnson 2020, Dodson 2020b: all (c). Their positions above are second-hand; page numbers are those given by the citing authors. - The venue-by-venue sweep of 2025–2026 (JEA, JARCE, GM, BIFAO, ZÄS, SAK, ENiM, RdE, JEH, KMT, Sokar, Nehet) was not completed because the search was exhausted; the ENiM author index (fetched) shows no 2022–2026 succession paper besides Bartos 2021; Amarna Project *Horizon* 20–23 (2019–2023) contain nothing on the succession. - Reeves 2023's re-reading of the TT 139 graffito and Johnson's 2020 join are the two items a reviewer would most want read in the original; both are in Festschriften without open access. - The Munich ivory's decisive epithet needs collation: Willeitner (mery-Akhenaten) vs Dietrich (akhet-en-hies).