egypt artifacts,Pharaoh Akhenaten
5/25/2013 03:50:00 AM
Museum record : JE43580
It dates back to the reign of Akhenaten, perhaps the second half of his reign.
Place of Discovery:
about The city of Amarna;
The site of Akhenaton is a vast natural bay of cliffs stretching for 25 kilometers
on the east bank of the Nile (from Sheikh Said in the north to Sheikh Abed
el Hamid in the south ), about 10 kilometers to the south of modern Malawi.
It was virgin territory, like the mound of sand at Heliopolis from which
the universe was said to have been created .
The king marked out the site with fourteen, boundary stelae, ;
Eleven on the east bank and three on the west. The city was to have been
the equivalent of Thebes, judging from the, names and the reconstructed
appearance of its monuments. Its royal and private necropolis, as well as a
cemetery of Mnevis bulls, were also intended to turn it into a new Heliopolis.
The construction and earliest occupation of the city of Akhetaten took place
at the site of el-Amarna between the fifth and sixth years of Akhenaton’s reign
. The inscription on the fourteen boundary stelae in the cliffs surrounding the
site gives the precise dimensions of the domain of Akhetaten and also contain
an oath never to overstep the boundaries of the city. This promise, which
defines the limits of the domain, has sometimes been wrongly interpreted as the
expression of the royal wish never to leave the Horizon of the Aten.
Material ;
It was made out of limestone, which is painted in a light color, rather
than the traditional color of men, reddish
brown.
Function ;
This piece was supposed to replace the king, who was the link between the
people and Aten, thus, his presence was important for the rituals connected
with Aten.
Description ;
The statuette is only 35cm high. It represents the king standing with
both feet on the same level ,presenting a tablet decorated with food and lotus
.
The king wears the blue crown of war . which was mad separately from the
head, an innovation of Amarna, this style is very common in wooden statues, not
in stone models , the crown seems to miss a cobra in front .
To oppose traditional art, the king here wears sandals. Though the statue
bears the usual features of Akhenaten; the elongated face, large pelvis,
pierced ears, lines on the neck he appears with less deformity and more serene
features, so perhaps the statue was made after the Atenism art was drifted away
from its previous exaggeration .
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