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