Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewDuring the 14th century, even as Egypt faced troubling challenges to her empire, the most basic structures of society suddenly came under attack from an unexpected quarter - the pharoah himself. Amenhotep IV (c. 1353-1336 B.C.), both god-king and high priest of all the gods in the Nile Valley, acted against all precendent by withdrawing his support from the orthodox religion. In place of Egypt's many traditional divinities, he promoted an entirely new form of the Sun God embodied in the solar orb ""Aten"", a hitherto minor figure in the pantheon. When the king decided to break with the past, he changed his name to Akhenaten and established for his god a new cult center on virgin ground in Middle Egypt. To define the site of Akhet-Aten (""Horizon of Aten""), the king commissioned a number of glorified frontier markers the boundary stelae. These were imposing monuments that symbolically established the royal presence, by means of statues and reliefs depicting the royal family, and preserved for posterity the decrees which had initiated the city's foundation. The 15 known boundary monuments of Akhenaten were discovered in the two decades that bridged the 19th and 20th centuries, but they were incompletely served by the pioneering publications that first made them known. The authors, both well-known Egyptologists, worked at El-Amarna from 1983 to 1989, making fresh copies of the inscriptions and studying the sites of the stelae themselves. The results of their investigations, which are published here, include a definitive new edition of the texts with modern translations, together with a wide-ranging analysis of the history which inspired and is reflected in these monuments. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Williiam J. Murnane , Charles C. Van Siceln IIIPublisher: Kegan Paul Imprint: Kegan Paul Weight: 0.938kg ISBN: 9780710304643ISBN 10: 0710304641 Pages: 276 Publication Date: 07 January 1993 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsDiscovery and previous study of the boundary stelae; the earlier proclamation; the later proclamation; architectural features of the boundary stelae; the boundary stelae as official and historical documents. Appendix: fragments of the boundary stelae no longer in situ; stelae l; principal topics of the inscriptions on the boundary stelae; index of Egyptian words and phrases.ReviewsAuthor InformationWilliam J. Murnane, Charles C. Van Siclen III Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
