Akhenaten (Part 6): New Name, Who Dis?

In regnal year 5, Amunhotep IV reached the conclusion of his early ideological development. His views had crystallized and he was ready to express them more explicitly than before. Soon, pharaoh issued a public declaration; he would now be called Akh-en-Aten

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Select Bibliography

Cyril Aldred, Akhenaten King of Egypt, 1988.

Norman de Garis Davies, The Rock Tombs of el-Amarna, Vol. V: the Smaller Tombs and Boundary Stelae, 1908. Available at Archive.org

Aidan Dodson, Amarna Sunrise, 2014.

Francis Llewellyn Griffith, The Petrie Papyri: Hieratic Papyri From Kahun and Gurob, 1898. Available at Archive.org

James K. Hoffmeier, Akhenaten & the Origins of Monotheism, 2015.

Barry Kemp, The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Its People, 2012.

Dominic Montserrat, Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt, 2005.

William J. Murnane, Texts From the Amarna Period in Egypt, 1995.

Donald B. Redford, Akhenaten: The Heretic King, 1987.

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  1. Jo Burl

    For some reason this episode won’t play from Apple podcast. I don’t see a place on this web page to play it either. Did something go wrong?

    Jo

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