... as the necropoleis that formed a fundamental part of it. It also discusses the further evolution of the Aten-cult, quoting the Great Hymn to the Aten and considering the relationship of the Aten to other deities. In particular, it is argued that the iconoclastic antipathy shown towards Amun was not so much...

...A stela brings us to the untold world of the Egyptian, but some of these stelae are too damaged to read in our present time. A duplicate of a stela set up in the Karnak complex shows figures when Tutankhamun is offering to Amun and Mut, with Ankhesenamun standing behind him. Below that figure...

... Montet. (left): Schematic orientation plan indicating the position of the main monuments in Tanis. 1. Amun’s temple district 2. temple of Mut and Khonsu 3. temple of Horus of Mesen 4. temple of Amun of Opet (right): Seth of Ramesse Meriamun. Detail of a scene from the Four...

... age ownership pension Saite Period son staple food Amasis Khausenmin son of Djekhy Rery son of Tesmontu P Louvre E 7832 P Louvre E 7848 P Louvre E 7861 brother business conflict contract father letter literacy Louvre Paris scribe Amun Djedkhonsuiufankh son of Rery Petemestu son...

... Choachytes embalming ritual fine funeral Greeks income of Theban choachytes inheritance marriage mummies Ptolemaic Period queen sale silver money social exclusion son Thunabunun tomb week Amun Ramesses II Memphis P Berlin 3115C P Cairo CG 31178 associations business conflict de...

...Kushite rule in Thebes lasted from 750 BC to 656 BC, and saw the revival of its fortunes in what was an era of turmoil and division in Egypt. Looking at structures of power and religious hierarchies, this chapter points to a religious renaissance that focussed on the cult of Amun. It also sheds...

... enterprises sometimes involving choachytes; like the papers of Djekhy & Son, they were written in the middle of the sixth century; and they all come from Thebes. Amun Amun Ra Great of Roaring Lord of the Great Rock Djekhy son of Tesmontu Psamtik son of Ankhpakhrat Karnak P BM EA 10432 P Mattha...

...-built quay at the western limit of the Amun precinct, and nearby a stela. Sethy II's efforts in the Amun temple were largely confined to replacing erased cartouches of his father and those of Amenmeses with his own names. Horus MERENPTAH SETHY II Bay KV13 chancellor Karnak Khnumemheb Overseer...

...View of the temple in Luxor at the turn of the 18th–19th century. ‘Proto-Doric’ fluted columns are among those to be found in Karnak. Thutmose III kneeling before Amun-Re and making a libation while the king of the gods holds out the symbol of life, the ankh, for him to inhale. Detail of decoration...

... ones, his attempts to guarantee the revolution through co-rulers, and the last frenzied assault on the god Amun. The book then outlines the events of the subsequent five decades that saw the extinction of the royal line, an attempt to place a foreigner on Egypt's throne, and the accession of three army...