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Amarna sunset : Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian counter-reformation
The noonday sun -- The waning sun -- The Northern problem -- The living image of Amun -- The Zananzash Affair -- God's Father to God -- The hawk in festival -- Sunset.
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cairo ; New York
: American University in Cairo Press
, 2009
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/jstor-ebooks-altertum/www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt15m7gz0 |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
Amarna sunset |
| Author Notes: | Aidan Dodson |
| E-Book Packages: | JSTOR E-Books in Classical Studies |
| Summary: | The noonday sun -- The waning sun -- The Northern problem -- The living image of Amun -- The Zananzash Affair -- God's Father to God -- The hawk in festival -- Sunset. This new study, drawing on the latest research, tells the story of the decline and fall of the pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution in the fourteenth century bc. Beginning at the regime's high-point in his Year 12, it traces the subsequent collapse that saw the deaths of many of the king's loved ones, his attempts to guarantee the revolution through co-rulers, and the last frenzied assault on the god Amun. The book then outlines the events of the subsequent five decades that saw the extinction of the royal line, an attempt to place a foreigner on Egypt's throne, and the accession of three army officers in turn. Among its conclusions are that the mother of Tutankhamun was none other than Nefertiti, and that the queen was joint-pharoah in turn with both her husband Akhenaten and her son. As such, she was herself instrumental in beginning the return to orthodoxy, undoing her erstwhile husband's life-work before her own mysterious disappearance |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-197) and index |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 207 pages) illustrations, maps |
| ISBN: | 1617970506 1936190192 9781617970504 9781936190195 9774163044 9789774163043 |
