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Akhenaten Sources
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- 1How to refer to this sourceStelae found at a home altar - Akhenaten, Nefertiti and three of their daughters
- 2What this stelae shows about Nefertiti- Potential co-regent, very powerful for a wife (same size as Akhenaten)
- Chief wife (in most art of royal family)
- Aten rays on her show her importance and role in the new religion (they are the only ones depicted under the rays of the Aten in Amarna iconography) - 3What this source shows about the Aten religion- Pharaoh and royal family worshipped to worship the Aten (only the royal family touched by the rays of the Aten)
- New art style and iconography (sun disc and rays)
- Worship in the home (home altar stelae) - 4What this source shows about the change to art- Sunken relief
- Loving family poses instead of traditional iconography
- Exaggerated physical features (pot belly, long skinny limbs)
- Daughters shown in art (usually only Pharaoh and his mother depicted in traditional iconography) - 5What is this source?One of the colossal statues of Akhenaten
- 6Who made this source?Bek
- 7What this source shows about the changes to art- Greater exaggeration under Bek than Thutmose (later years)
- Still some traditional iconography (holding crook and flail, nemes headdress - 8Allen's point of view on changes to the art style“All of these changes reflect Akhenaten’s emphasis on the visible, tangible, here-and-now rather than the more spiritual and timeless forms of traditional Egyptian art.”
“merely an artistic convention meant to emphasize the difference between the royal family and mere mortals” - 9Evidence of Akhenaten's role in the changes to art style- Stela by Bek: describes himself as “the apprentice whom his majesty taught”
- Rock stela at Aswan in which Akhenaten claims he taught Bek - 10What is this source?Wilbour Plaque
- 11What does this source show about the changes to art style?Softening of the style from Year 9 onwards under new master sculptor Thutmose
- 12What are these?Talatat Blocks
- 13Who is putting these back together?Akhenaten Temple Project
- 14What did these blocks innovate?Architecture - small enough to be carried by a single man. Increased speed of architecture and assisted in the quick building of Akhetaten
- 15What is this stela?Window of Appearances
- 16What does this stela show about the Aten religion?- The royal family were worshipped by the people in order to worship the Aten (Aten's rays on the royal family)
- 17What evidence does this source provide about Nefertiti?- Nefertiti important religious and political role - equal size to Akhenaten and performing a role reserved for a pharaoh (potentially a co-regent?)
- 18What does this stela show about the art style during Akhenaten's reign?- New pharaoh iconography
- Elongated limbs
- Exaggerated facial features
- New royal iconography (chief wife not traditionally shown in art)
- New religious iconography
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- Primary and Secondary Sources on Akhenaten
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- Elizabeth Clifford
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