The Sunshade Chapel of Meritaten from the House-of-Waenre of Akhenaten /

The Sunshade Chapel of Meritaten from the House-of-Waenre of Akhenaten /

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Main Author: Wegner, Josef W. (Author)

Corporate Author: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2017.

Series: University Museum monograph ; 144.

Subjects:

Aten > (Egyptian deity) > Cult.
Stele (Archaeology) > Egypt.
Temples > Egypt > Heliopolis (Extinct city)
Temples > Egypt > Tell el-Amarna.
Egypt > Antiquities.

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Call Number: DT68.8 .W44 2017

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Provenance and object history
  • The block and its decoration
  • The Aten cartouches and epithets
  • Architectural inlay
  • Reconstruction of the Meritaten Sunshade chapel
  • The chapel of Meritaten and the Amarna period Sunshades
  • The House-of-Waenre
  • A Heliopolitan Horizon-of-the-Aten?
  • Damnatio memoriae
  • Ramesside reuse at Heliopolis
  • Reuse of the Meritaten sunshade block in Islamic Cairo
  • Conclusions.