ART HIS 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ancient Egyptian Religion, Minos, Tutankhamun
28 Oct 2016
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Relief of akhenaten and his family (modern tell el-amarna) Creating a new look for the same visual language. Uraeus serpent on the king and queen ahten disk shines down on royal family. Ank is egyptian and (cross with hook) and represents longevity. Life comes from the ahten (creator god and royalty are close) God genderless and his male and female royalty = new trinity. Clothes are standard but the bodies are different. What is going on with this new style (the look is diff, not the language) King chose to be represented to look like this. Scholars argued that he might have actually looked like this marfan"s syndrome. Kings were never truly honest about their appearance before. Either this was an honest representation or he looked nothing like this. The dual-gender deity in the sky, the king is representing himself as an earthly representation of that concept. (neither female nor male, androgynous appearance.
