Concerning the Offerings of Akhenaten's Royal family | ||
| حولية الاتحاد العام للآثاريين العرب "دراسات فى آثار الوطن العربى" | ||
| Article 52, Volume 11, Issue 1, October 2008, Pages 36-57 PDF (111.24 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/cguaa.2008.38414 | ||
| Author | ||
| mofida elweshahy | ||
| Faculty of Tourism and Hotels - Suez Canal University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| one; it was revolutionary in Egyptian art, revolutionary in the world of ideas. The religious changes were associated with him, the older gods and deities were denied, Amun "the hidden one" enclosed in his dark and secret sanctuary was replaced by Aten, the glorious disk of the sun whose life-giving rays descended equally upon all mankind and all nature rejoiced in his blessing, it vision of the deity as a god lovingly concerned with all creation speaks for it self. Akhenaten famous hymn to the sun (Aten) was written in every where at the site of Amarna city but the complete one was engraved in Ay tomb at Amarna (No.22). It highlights the manner of worshipping and offerings which were introduced to the living disk Aten. This paper aims to study the offering scenes of Akhenaten and his royal family to Aten and to show the different aspects of the royal family concerning the representation of offerings, such as the special scene of Ipy. It also presents an analysis of the iconography of the offering of Akhenaten's divine positions and his god Aten. It shows the different aspects concerning the representation of offerings to the sun-god in Heliopolis, Memphis and Re-Harakhty in Thebes, and presents an analysis of the iconography of the offering of Akhenaten's divine positions and his god Aten. | ||
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