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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780810803321

Autore

Dodson Aidan <1962->

Titolo

Amarna sunset [[electronic resource] ] : Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian counter-reformation / / Aidan Dodson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cairo ; ; New York, : American University in Cairo Press, 2009

ISBN

1-61797-050-6

1-936190-19-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Disciplina

932.014092

Soggetti

Pharaohs

Egypt History Eighteenth dynasty, ca. 1570-1320 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; ILLUSTRATIONS; MAPS; ABBREVIATIONS ANDCONVENTIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: SUNRISE; 1 - The Noonday Sun; 2 - The Waning Sun; 3 - The Northern Problem; 4 - The Living Image of Amun; 5 - The Zananzash Affair; 6 - God's Father to God; 7 - The Hawk in Festival; 8 - Sunset; NOTES; APPENDICES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This new study, drawing on the latest research, tells the story of the decline and fall of the pharaoh Akhenaten's religious revolution in the fourteenth century bc. Beginning at the regime's high-point in his Year 12, it traces the subsequent collapse that saw the deaths of many of the king's loved 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