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118b: Funding the Aten Temples

118b: Funding the Aten Temples

The History of Egypt Podcast

December 4, 201935m 49s

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Show Notes

Around 1354 BCE (regnal year 8), Akhenaten took care to organise his new royal city. Among other things he expanded the agricultural domain which would serve Aten (the sun god), and he also appointed new priests and administrators to manage his temples. As the first decade of his rule came towards its end, Akhenaten's vision was finally starting to become reality...


Select Bibliography:

  • Aidan Dodson, Amarna Sunrise, 2012.
  • Barry Kemp, City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Its People, 2012.
  • Donald B. Redford, Akhenaten: The Heretic King, 1984.
  • Norman de Garis Davies, The Rock Tombs of el-Amarna, Vol. I: The Tomb of Meryre, 1903. Archive.org.
  • Norman de Garis Davies, The Rock Tombs of el-Amarna, Vol. II: The Tombs of Panehsy and Meryre II, 1905. Archive.org.
  • Norman de Garis Davies, The Rock Tombs of el-Amarna, Vol. V: Smaller Tombs and Boundary Stela, 1908. Archive.org.
  • William J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt, 1995.
  • William J. Murnane and Cornel van Siclen III, The Boundary Stelae of Akhenaten, 1993.

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