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

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

The quartzite architectural block E16230 has been on display in the Penn Museum for 115 years. E16230 is one of the few large architectural pieces in the world surviving from the much-debated reign of the "heretic" king Akhenaten. This block is one of the most historically significant obje...

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Wegner, Josef,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.) :; 8 color, 58 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Color Plates
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Provenance and Object History
  • 3. The Block and Its Decoration
  • 4. The Aten Cartouches and Epithets
  • 5. Architectural Inlay
  • 6. Reconstruction of the Meritaten Sunshade Chapel
  • 7. The Chapel of Meritaten and the Amarna Period Sunshades
  • 8. The House-of-Waenre
  • 9. A Heliopolitan Horizon-of-the-Aten?
  • 10. Damnatio Memoriae
  • 11. Ramesside Reuse at Heliopolis
  • 12. Reuse of the Meritaten Sunshade Block in Islamic Cairo
  • 13. Conclusions
  • References

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