Amarna period deceased offering pictures-versus earlier and later periods?

Question

I got the impression from an article in the Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, that during the Amarna period, even in non-royal tombs, that it was always and only Akhnaton himself who is the one making offerings to the gods.

I was unclear about the presence of other pharaohs in pictures of offerings to the gods, IN TOMBS OR STRUCTURES NOT THEIR OWN.

Are the deceased ever shown making their own offerings alone?

How does this change with changes in funerary practices and religious cultus?

Please start your answer simply then do enter into more complexity including references.

Answer 1

You are asking for a simple answer to a series of non sequiturs. Akhennaton was the only pharoah in the entire history of the pharonic line to attempt to start his own monotheistic religion. What offerings are attributed to him are being made to the Aten, or one deity. Amarna is an attempt to create a new religious capital in Egypt away from the former polytheistic capitals.

In starting a new monotheism, he ran afoul of the current priesthood, whose power in Egypt would have been badly diminished if the monotheism had been allowed to continue. His offspring saw

the end of Atun, and the reestablishment of the polytheistic cults. King Tut was not raised as Tutankhaten, but as Tutankhamen.

The pictograms in the tombs do not focus on the dead pharoah's offerings to the gods, but rather to his achievements in life, and the weighing of his soul on his way to the afterlife. The other pharoahs in his tomb are there to bear witness.

Their names are inscribed only in cartouche, not in pictograms, with the exception of wives and children. B.

Answer 2

I don't have my Oxford in front of me (its at home); but Akenaton closed all the temples and the people were supposed to make offerings to HIM, then he would make offerings to Aton.  Very catholic of him in my biased view....

I don't recall any images of others making offerings from AH class; but Amarna is big; and wasn't around that long.  But I would suspect anyone buried there would have had to prescribe to the official religious practices.