The Sunshade Chapel of Meritaten from the House-of-Waenre of Akhenaten /

The quartzite architectural block E16230 has been on display in the Penn Museum for 115 years. E16230 is one of the few large architectural pieces in the world surviving from the much-debated reign of the "heretic" king Akhenaten. This block is one of the most historically significant obje...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wegner, Josef W. (Josef William) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2017.
Colección:University Museum monograph ; 144.
Temas:
Aten > (Egyptian deity) > Cult.
Aten > (Egyptian deity)
Stele (Archaeology) > Egypt.
Temples > Egypt > Heliopolis (Extinct city)
Temples > Egypt > Tell el-Amarna.
Stèles (Archéologie) > Égypte.
HISTORY > Ancient > Egypt.
Antiquities.
Cults.
Stele (Archaeology)
Temples.
Egypt > Antiquities.
Égypte > Antiquités.
Egypt.
Egypt > Heliopolis (Extinct city)
Egypt > Tell el-Amarna.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Provenance and object history
  • The block and its decoration
  • The Aten cartouches and epithets
  • Architectural inlay
  • Reconstruction of the Meritaten Sunshade chapel
  • The chapel of Meritaten and the Amarna period Sunshades
  • The House-of-Waenre
  • A Heliopolitan Horizon-of-the-Aten?
  • Damnatio memoriae
  • Ramesside reuse at Heliopolis
  • Reuse of the Meritaten sunshade block in Islamic Cairo
  • Conclusions.

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