NEHC 20013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Deir El-Bahari, Hatshepsut, Ostracon
6 Sep 2016
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Salient points in shaw read shaw, very good. Amarna: exaggerated, womanly body, alien-ish, akhetaten: moved to in year 5. Place chosen because no history, good defensive surroundings: boundary stelae (multiple ones to both describe and mark boundary; eleven in total) If he died outside of amarna, he must be brought back and then buried. The aten had told him to make the move: thutmose was sculptor, had city itself with different neighborhoods (socio-economic, know some salient physical features (half dozen), like temples and buildings, the great aten temple. Very open, a lot of light, heat. Tomb depictions would describe life at amarna: talatat blocks were primarily used made of mudbrick. Easy to construct and deconstruct: the small aten temple. Mansion of the aten: window of appearance. If someone did something good, he would give praise, gift from window of appearance. Great amarna style, fat belly, weird hips, sun rays with hands.
