Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 62-20014

Copyright, 1963, by
Baker Book House Company

ISBN: 0-8010-7002-3

Fourth printing, April 1980

PHOTOLITHOPRINTED BY CUSHING-MALLOY, INC.
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1980

CONTENTS

I. Discoveries at Amarna 9

II. The Restless Pharaoh 16

III. The Horizon of Aton 26

IV. Atonism 31

V. The Hymn to the Aton 38

VI. The Affairs of Empire 44

VII. Trade and Commerce During the Amarna Age 55

VIII. The Art of Amarna 58

IX. The End of an Era 62

X. Amarna and the Bible 67

Illustrations

Map of Ancient Egypt 8

Amarna Tablets 11

Courtesy, British Museum

Map of Akhetaton, the City of Akhenaton 15

Commemorative Scarab of Amenhotep III 18

Courtesy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1935

Amenhotep III 18

Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Akhenaton and Nofretete 21

Courtesy, The Brooklyn Museum

Seated Figure of Akhenaton 22

Courtesy, the Louvre

Seated Figure of Akhenaton (detail) 22

Courtesy, The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

A Princess at Akhetaton 24

Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Princess Manyet-aton 24

Courtesy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Theodore M. Davies, 1907

King Tutankhamon 25

Courtesy, The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

The Estate of a Nobleman 29

Courtesy, The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

Hapi, God of the Nile 32

Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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