TUTANKHAMUN AND HOREMHEB

"The death of Akhenaten , after only seventeen years on the throne, ushered in a period of great political turmoil in Egypt, as the forces of conservatism sought to overturn his revolution and re-establish the old orthodoxies. There may have been opposition among Akhenaten 's surviving relatives, but the eventual accession of a boy as king (Tutankhamun) allowed the powers behind the throne to assert themselves and complete the counter-revolution. The final triumph of orthodoxy and the death of Akhenaten 's radical ideas were celebrated in a great commemorative inscription, carved on a large stela of red quartzite. Although issued in the name of Tutankhamun, its measures bear the fingerprints of his commander-in-chief, Horemheb; indeed some of the phraseology of the so-called restoration decree of Tutankhamun is closely paralleled in the Edict of Horemheb...issued a few years later." P. 207, "Restoration Decree of Tutankhamun," WRITINGS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT (2016) translation by Toby Wilkinson