Yr 12 Ancient History

1. Akhenaten’s Image

2. 1. Akhenaten as a symbol of modernity,
progress and civilisation

3. Young Moses reading to Pharaoh's daughter (and Akhenaten?) in an interior with
themes taken from Amarna sculpture, from Sunday Readings for the young, c.1894. It
was intended to be coloured in. The illustration is based on Arthur
Reginald's 1894 painting Joseph Interpreting the Pharaoh’s Dream.

4. Amarna royal women advertise 'All Roads Lead to Egypt': The
Times, 26 January 1937.

5. Clara Siemens, etchings of(a) Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their
daughters, based on the famous stela from Amarna now in
Berlin, (Akhenaten and Nefertiti in the studio of Djehutmosc, c.
1922. Reproduced from Auer 1922.

6. Winifred Brunton (1880-1959), Smenkhkare', c.
1929. Reproduced from Brunton 1930. It is based
on the Pase stela.
“Of the portrait of Akhenaten I will say little
except that it represents the king as he must
have been toward the end of his reign. The
poetic grace of his youth had gone, and
illness and fanaticism had left their mark. He
must have realised, if he realised anything,
that his beautiful religion was not gaining
ground, and that the world remained
unregenerate. Ty's whole face shows her to
have been a woman of violent emotions,
swayed by impulse, subject to moods, and
her expressive mouth moreover is that of a
jealous imperious individual, lacking self-
control.” Brunton, Kings and Queens of
Ancient Egypt (1926)

8. Reconstruction of Akhet-aten from The illustrated London
News, 15 September 1934, by D. Macpherson.

14. https://vimeo.com/131262334

15. 2. Akhenaten as a symbol of Race

17. It is so, however, not so much because its
Founder was, or might well have
been, influenced by people having an Aryan
outlook (be it by his Mitannian step-mothers
or by his own mother) as because he was
himself surely half, if not more than half
Aryan: a blending of the old blood of the
kings of Thebes with that of the noble race
from the North predestined to give the
world, along with the heroic philosophy of
disinterested Action, the lure of logical
thinking and disinterested research — the
scientific spirit.
…Adolf Hitler, who, accepting the Law of
Violence, which he ignored, was to seek to
build upon its only possible basis, the reign
of Truth towards which he had aspired.

19. https://youtu.be/6QGr
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21. 3. Akhenaten as an evil influence

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