Amarna Sunset Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation

by Dodson, Aidan

• ISBN13: 9789774163043
• ISBN10: 9774163044
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-15
• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press

Summary

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 army officers in turn. Among its conclusions are that the mother of Tutankhamun was none other than Nefertiti, and that the queen was joint-pharaoh in turn with both her husband Akhenaten and her son. As such, she was herself instrumental in beginning the return to orthodoxy, undoing her erstwhile husband's life-work before her own mysterious disappearance.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Maps	p. xiv
Abbreviations and Conventions	p. xix
Preface	p. xxi
Introduction: Sunrise	p. 1
The Noonday Sun	p. 11
The Waning Sun	p. 27
The Northern Problem	p. 53
The Living Image of Amun	p. 61
The Zananzash Affair	p. 89
God's Father to God	p. 95
The Hawk in Festival	p. 109
Sunset	p. 135
Notes	p. 139
Appendices	p. 163
Chronology of Ancient Egypt	p. 163
Relative Chronology of Egyptian and Foreign Kings of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Dynasties	p. 166
Royal Names of the Late Eighteenth Dynasty	p. 170
Tentative Genealogy of the Late Eighteenth Dynasty	p. 172
Bibliography	p. 174
Index	p. 198
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