Research Catalog

Title

The city of Akhenaten and Nefertiti : Amarna and its people / Barry Kemp.

Author

Kemp, Barry J.

Publication

London : Thames & Hudson, c2012.

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Description

320 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 26 cm.

Summary

The ancient site of Tell el-Amarna in Middle Egypt was the capital city of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten and his chief consort, Nefertiti. Occupied for just sixteen or so years in the fourteenth century BC, the city lay largely abandoned and forgotten until excavations over the last hundred years brought it back into prominence. Based on more than three decades of research and excavation by Barry Kemp, this account provides new insight into Amarna and its people.The author brings to life the royal family and their offspring, including Tutankhamun, as well as prominent citizens such as the high priest Panehsy, the vizier Nakht, the general Ramose, and the sculptor Thutmose.

Series Statement

New aspects of antiquity

Uniform Title

New aspects of antiquity.

Subject

• Akhenaton, King of Egypt
• Nefertiti, Queen of Egypt, active 14th century B.C
• 1570-1320 B.C
• Forntiden
• Pharaohs > Biography
• Tell el-Amarna (Egypt) > History
• Egypt > History > Eighteenth dynasty, ca. 1570 B.C.-1320 B.C
• Egypt > History > Eighteenth dynasty, ca. 1570-1320 B.C

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• History
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-313) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Cast of characters -- City of the horizon -- Building a vision -- Akhenaten's resources -- The city of the Sun-God -- The apartments of the Pharaoh -- City of people -- The quality of life -- Spiritual life at Amarna -- What kinds of city? -- An end and a beginning.

ISBN

• 9780500051733 (cloth)
• 0500051739 (cloth)

LCCN

^^2011945993

OCLC

783162529

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library