RELIGN M132 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Amarna, Big Dipper, Two Ladies

• School: UCLA
• Department: Religion, Study of
• Course: RELIGN M132
• Professor: Kathlyn Cooney

Document Summary

Akhenaten chose a broad plain in the hermopolitan nome as the site for a new royal city, where the worship of the aten would; flourish unimpeded. Building proceeded rapidly. and the town was,"," formally dedicated to the aten in a ceremony recorded on three boundary stelae. Furthermore, the kin vows that he will not "pass beyond" the boundaries as marked by th stelae. Stelae: an upright stone slab or column typically bearing a commemorative inscription or relief design, often serving as a gravestone. (so it s just a giant pillar like the ones in axum, ethiopia) The living horus: strong bull beloved of aten; two ladies: (;reat of kingship in akhet-aten; gold-horus: Who exalts the name of aten; the king of upper and lower egypt who lives by moat, the lord ol rhe. Two lands: nejerkheprure, sole-nne-ot-he; the son of re who lives in moat, the lord of crowns: Akhenaten, great in his lifetime, given life forever.