King Amenhotep IV (1350-1334)

Hieroglyphic name: 
Horus name of Amenhotep IV
Nebti name of Amenhotep IV
Name: Akhenaten (Amenhotep), Neferkheperrewaenre, Wetjesrenenaten, Wernesytemakhetaten, and horus name of him: Meryaten (Kanakht Qaishuty).

Statue of Amenhotep IV
Throne name Neferkheperure waenre. Direct name Amenhotep IV. Son of Amenhotep III and Tiy. It is presumptive that he was not the eldest son, as a Prince Thutmose is attested but presumably died young. It is also not distinct if there was a coregency between his father and himself or whether he succeeded only upon his fathers death. Akhenaten searched to establish the higher status of the cult of Re-Harakhty in the figure of Aten, the sun disk. Following opposite in Thebes from the followers of Amun, he showed a new capital at Akhetaten, now Amarna, and built his royal tomb nearby. His foeman to the older cults step by step grew more intense, and they were finally proscribed. His sacred  beliefs  have  been  wrongly  described  as  monotheism,  as Akhenaten did not yield those cults related with the sun god or with kingship, namely his deify father and himself.

His reign is also noted for a hot new art style, which is far freer than older Egyptian convening and depicted the royal family and he himself in a particular manner. Some have sought to identify a medical trouble in this style, but it may only have been a new  artistic  pattern.  His  wife,  Nefertiti,  assumed  a  outstanding role  in  royal  pictures,  and  it  has  been  proposed  that  she  even  succeeded him. The circumstances that ended the reign are unknown. Akhenatens eventual heir, Tutankhamun, who may have been his son, abandoned Amarna and reverted to the idolise of Amun. Akhenatens name and that of his close successors were later out.



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