XIVᵉ siècle av. J.-C. – XIVᵉ siècle av. J.-C.
Egypt
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Akhenaton was the Egyptian king formerly known as Amenhotep IV who launched a radical religious and political transformation centered on Aton. He founded the new capital Akhet Aton at Tell-el-Amarna, attacked the institutions of Amun, and promoted an open-air solar cult and naturalistic royal art. The movement was largely reversed after his death.
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Amenhotep IV, later known as Akhenaton, is portrayed as a ruler more concerned with spiritual and intellectual questions than with soldiering or conventional statecraft. He sought a direct relationship with the deity and adopted the epithet “He-who-lives-on-Truth.” His reform represented both a religious innovation and a challenge to the political power accumulated by the high priests of Amun at Thebes.
Akhenaton first established a great temple to Aton at Thebes, east of Amun’s temple at Karnak, but later withdrew from the city. He founded a new residence at Tell-el-Amarna, named Akhet Aton, and moved there with his family and a large retinue during the sixth year of his reign. He changed his own name to Akh-en-Aton and gave his queen the throne name Nefer-Neferu-Aton.
The king proclaimed Aton the sole true god and ordered the erasure of Amun’s name from inscriptions. He also decreed the dissolution of the priesthood and temple estates, provoking violent opposition because temples depended on government grants. Aton was worshipped in open-air courts without divine images, through offerings of flowers and fruit, and the religion emphasized truth, individual liberty, and the life-giving power of the sun.
Akhenaton’s religious program was accompanied by a new artistic naturalism. The royal family appeared in informal scenes of affection, eating, and playing with their children rather than in the stylized forms associated with eternal kingship. The revolution did not survive its founder: Smenekhkare began reconciliation with Amun, Tutankhamun restored the older order while retaining some place for Aton, and Horemheb later began systematic persecution of the Atonist cult.
XIVᵉ siècle av. J.-C. – XIVᵉ siècle av. J.-C.
Egypt
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Akhenaton was the Egyptian king formerly known as Amenhotep IV who launched a radical religious and political transformation centered on Aton. He founded the new capital Akhet Aton at Tell-el-Amarna, attacked the institutions of Amun, and promoted an open-air solar cult and naturalistic royal art. The movement was largely reversed after his death.
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Amenhotep IV, later known as Akhenaton, is portrayed as a ruler more concerned with spiritual and intellectual questions than with soldiering or conventional statecraft. He sought a direct relationship with the deity and adopted the epithet “He-who-lives-on-Truth.” His reform represented both a religious innovation and a challenge to the political power accumulated by the high priests of Amun at Thebes.
Akhenaton first established a great temple to Aton at Thebes, east of Amun’s temple at Karnak, but later withdrew from the city. He founded a new residence at Tell-el-Amarna, named Akhet Aton, and moved there with his family and a large retinue during the sixth year of his reign. He changed his own name to Akh-en-Aton and gave his queen the throne name Nefer-Neferu-Aton.
The king proclaimed Aton the sole true god and ordered the erasure of Amun’s name from inscriptions. He also decreed the dissolution of the priesthood and temple estates, provoking violent opposition because temples depended on government grants. Aton was worshipped in open-air courts without divine images, through offerings of flowers and fruit, and the religion emphasized truth, individual liberty, and the life-giving power of the sun.
Akhenaton’s religious program was accompanied by a new artistic naturalism. The royal family appeared in informal scenes of affection, eating, and playing with their children rather than in the stylized forms associated with eternal kingship. The revolution did not survive its founder: Smenekhkare began reconciliation with Amun, Tutankhamun restored the older order while retaining some place for Aton, and Horemheb later began systematic persecution of the Atonist cult.
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