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    Amarna art, or the Amarna style, is a style adopted in the Amarna Period during and just after the reign of Akhenaten (r. 1351–1334 BC) in the late Eighteenth...
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    Amarna (/əˈmɑːrnə/; Arabic: العمارنة, romanized: al-ʿAmārna) is an extensive ancient Egyptian archaeological site containing the remains of what was the...
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    They are labeled "Chiefs of Retjenu". Amarna art is named for the extensive archeological site at Tel el-Amarna, where Pharaoh Akhenaten moved the capital...
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    Atenism (redirect from Amarna heresy)
    Atenism, also known as the Aten religion, the Amarna religion, and the Amarna heresy, was a religion in ancient Egypt. It was founded by Akhenaten, a...
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    Amarna letters (/əˈmɑːrnə/; sometimes referred to as the Amarna correspondence or Amarna tablets, and cited with the abbreviation EA, for "El Amarna")...
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  • The Amarna Period was an era of Egyptian history during the later half of the Eighteenth Dynasty when the royal residence of the pharaoh and his queen...
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  • did their best to remove all traces of the period from the records. The Amarna art is very distinctive: the royal family was portrayed with extended heads...
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    The Amarna Princess, sometimes referred to as the "Bolton Amarna Princess," is a statue forged by British art forger Shaun Greenhalgh and sold by his...
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    art that flourished during the reigns of Akhenaten and his immediate successors, known as Amarna art, are markedly different from the traditional art...
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  • Djhutmose, Thutmosis, and Thutmes), was an Ancient Egyptian sculptor in the Amarna style. He flourished around 1350 BC, and is thought to have been the official...
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  • a name used to refer to a female king who reigned toward the end of the Amarna Period during the Eighteenth Dynasty. Her gender is confirmed by feminine...
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    Ancient Egypt (section Art)
    the Amarna Period, where figures were radically altered to conform to Akhenaten's revolutionary religious ideas. This style, known as Amarna art, was...
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    Nefertiti Bust (category Amarna)
    in 1345 BC by Thutmose because it was found in his workshop in Tell-el Amarna, Egypt. It is one of the most-copied works of ancient Egypt. Nefertiti has...
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    found in the art style of the Amarna Period, although the south wall reverts to the conventional proportions found in art before and after Amarna. Scenes from...
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    like elongated skulls, limbs, underdeveloped torsos, and gynecomastia in Amarna art is hypothesized to be the effect of a familial disease. Marriage between...
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  • capital at the site of Amarna, which gives his reign and the few that followed their modern name, the Amarna Period. Amarna art diverged significantly...
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    Amarna letter EA 15, titled Assyria Joins the International Scene, is a shorter-length clay tablet Amarna letter from Ashur-uballit I of the Land of Assyria...
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    and Nefertiti found at Tell el-Amarna, the head of Nefertem has the elongated head and neck wrinkles typical of Amarna art. This suggests that the creation...
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    Mena Abu Rawash Abu Simbel Abusir Abydos Alexandria Al Fayyum/Atef-Pehu Amarna/Akhetaten Aswan Asyut Avaris Beni Hasan Bubastis Buhen Busiris (Lower Egypt)...
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    characteristics of a period within the 18th dynasty referred to as the Amarna Period (c. 1353–1336 B.C.E.). Atenism and the worship of the Aten as the...
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    If Nefertiti did rule as Pharaoh, her reign was marked by the fall of Amarna and relocation of the capital back to the traditional city of Thebes. In...
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    very end of his reign, and the Amarna Letters indicate that she was of marriageable age at that time. In particular, Amarna Letters 27 through 29 confirm...
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    Amarna letter EA 153, titled Ships on Hold, is a short-length clay tablet letter from Abimilku of the island (at Amarna letters time) of city-state Tyre...
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    Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya - Alhazen - Hassan Allam - Al-Qurn - Amarna - Amarna art - Amarna letters - Amasis II - Ambrose of Alexandria - Amduat - Ammit...
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    during the Amarna Period of the 18th Dynasty. Smenkhkare was husband to Meritaten, the daughter of his likely co-regent, Akhenaten. Since the Amarna period...
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    memoriae against him and the other pharaohs associated with the unpopular Amarna Period. Ay is believed to have been from Akhmim. During his short reign...
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    the earliest examples of Amarna style depictions. The figures show the rounded form that will become typical in Amarna art, and courtiers are shown bending...
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    Additionally, he moved the royal court away from Akhenaten's capital, Amarna, and back to Memphis. He reestablished diplomatic relations with the Mitanni...
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    (La formulación de la imagen corporal para la élite Egipcia en el periodo Amarna)". Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris. Bmsap....
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