Gm•(t)-p3-itn

May 7, 2024 2:44 PM

Originally published in 1979, 'The Akhenaten Temple Project and Karnak Excavations' is a nice shapshot of the projects overview. "Akhenaten built the Gem-pa-Aten in the third year of his reign to celebrate his jubilee festival (the heb-sed). By year six of his reign, however, Akhenaten had moved the court and royal palace to a new city in Middle Egypt, modern Tell el-Amarna. The extent to which the Gem-pa-Aten and the other structures dedicated to the Aten at Thebes functioned during the king’s hiatus is unknown." from Digital Karnak, A nice index for the history and archeology in Karnak. (Digital Karnak previously)
posted by clavdivs (2 comments total)

I will make the City of the Horizon of the Aten for the Aten, my Father, in this place. I will not make the city south of it, north of it, west of it or east of it. Neither shall the Queen say unto me, Behold there is a goodly place for the City of the Horizon in another place', and I harken unto her. Neither shall any noble nor any man in the whole land say unto me, `Behold there is a goodly place for the City of the Horizon in another place', and I harken unto them.

posted by BrashTech at 2:56 PM on May 7 [8 favorites]

I've been haphazardly cobbling together a sense of 18th dynasty history as part of a personal project and didn’t know anything about this reconstruction effort. Very cool. I loved the use of the word “zany”. (apologies for the shameless self-promotion).
posted by brachiopod at 7:37 PM on May 7 [2 favorites]