[PDF] The Tell El Amarna Period eBook

Author : Carl Niebuhr
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,10 MB
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781330375037

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Excerpt from The Tell El Amarna Period: The Relations of Egypt and Western Asia in the Fifteenth Century B. C. According to the Tell El Amarna Tablets As early as 1820 it was known in Europe that in Middle Egypt, on the east bank of the Nile, in the district between Minieh and Siut, there lay the remains of a great city of Ancient Egypt. The Prussian exploration expedition of 1842-45 gave special attention to this site, where indeed were found, about sixty miles south of Minieh, extensive ruins, beginning at the village of Haggi Kandil and covering the floor of a rock-bound valley named after the fellahîn village, El Amarna. At that time the ground-plan of the city was still easy to distinguish; the regular lines of the streets could be traced, and enough could be seen of the great design of the principal temple to excite the admiration of the discoverers. This example of the laying out of an ancient Egyptian town still remains almost unique, for of old, as now, private buildings were constructed of flimsy material. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Carl Niebuhr
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781437891935

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Carl Krug (1861-1927), who wrote under the pseudonym Carl Niebuhr, was the author of The Tell El Amarna Period (1901). The site of Amarna (commonly known as el-Amarna or incorrectly as Tel el-Amarna; is located on the east bank of the Nile River in the modern Egyptian province of Minya, some 58 km (38 miles) south of the city of al-Minya, 312 km (194 miles) south of the Egyptian capital Cairo and 402 km (250 miles) north of Luxor. The area contains an extensive Egyptian archaeological site that represents the remains of the capital city newly-established and built by the Pharaoh Akhenaten of the late Eighteenth Dynasty (c. 1353 Be. The area was also occupied during later Roman and early Christian times, excavations to the south of the city have found several structures from this period. In 1887 a local woman digging for sebakh uncovered a cache of over 300 cuneiform tablets (now commonly known as the Amarna Letters). These tablets recorded select diplomatic correspondence of the Pharaoh and were predominantly written in Akkadian, the lingua franca commonly used during the Late Bronze Age of the Ancient Near East for such communication.

Author : Dorothea Arnold
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Portrait sculpture, Ancient
ISBN : 0870998161

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The move to a new capital, Akhenaten/Amarna, brought essential changes in the depictions of royal women. It was in their female imagery, above all, that the artists of Amarna departed from the traditional iconic representations to emphasize the individual, the natural, in a way unprecedented in Egyptian art.

Author : Carl Krug
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 2016-05-09
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ISBN : 9781356197682

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Author : Geoffrey Thorndike Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 0710304137

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First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Carl Krug
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2014-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781295780938

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Author : William L. Moran
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801867156

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An ancient inscription identified some of the ruins at el Amarna as "The Place of the Letters of the Pharaoh." Discovered there, circa 1887, were nearly four hundred cuneiform tablets containing correspondence of the Egyptian court with rulers of neighboring states in the mid-fourteenth century B.C. Previous translations of these letters were both incomplete and reflected an imperfect understanding of the Babylonian dialects in which they were written. William Moran devoted a lifetime of study to the Amarna letters to prepare this authoritative English translation. The letters provide a vivid record of high-level diplomatic exchanges that, by modern standards, are often less than diplomatic. An Assyrian ruler complains that the Egyptian king's latest gift of gold was not even sufficient to pay the cost of the messengers who brought it. The king of Babylon refuses to give his daughter in marriage to the pharaoh without first having proof that the king's sister—already one of the pharaoh's many wives—is still alive and well. The king of Karaduniyash complains that the Egyptian court has "detained" his messenger—for the past six years. And Egyptian vassal Rib-Hadda, writing from the besieged port of Byblos, repeatedly demands military assistance for his city or, failing that, an Egyptian ship to permit his own escape.