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Published: 2014-12-11 20:16:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 2021; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 22
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Statue head of the "heretical" pharao Akhenaten (Echnaton, formerly Amenophis IV, ca. 1351-1336 B.C.), in the Museum of Alexandria, Egypt. He bears the pschent, the Double Crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, and the Uraeus, the cobra of the goddes Wadjet (Uto, to the Greeks) on his head. Akhenaten was famous for abolishing the polytheistic pantheon of Egypt in favor of the solar-disk Aten. He was later subjected to damnatio memoriae, that is, had his name erased from memory and struck of the monuments.The title is of course a reference to Shelley, and refers to a different pharaoh.
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Akhenaten was probably one of the most interesting and mysterious kings of all the time.Β
You did a awesome job taking this lovely photo.
I may use it later in some photo manipulation
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Thank you, andΒ - wonderful! I'm so glad my picture could inspire. I'm looking forward to your photo manipulation!
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yeah i remember watching a section on that on a documentary. wow how much would that suck to have your name removed. like you never existed in the first place.
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Pretty much like the Roman curse . For the Egyptians, this would also have meant that you would have difficulty in the afterlife. Not that Akhenaten would not have had enough problems explaining himself to the Judges of the Underworld if the Egyptians were right about that bit.
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now was it the Egyptians that also removed the penis from one of the pharaohs as well? one of them did something and and thats what they did either that or it was the Romans that did something like that when Christianity arrived. cant be sure
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It's the Osiris myth. Seth carved his brother up, and Isis managed to get all the pieces together except for that one, which had been gobbled up by a mormyrid (oxyrhinchus, literally "sharpnose"), a kind of fish. So she had a golden piece made for him. Not sure they did that for their pharaohs too. The Christians did on occasion carve off the offending bits of ancient statues, or hide them behind figleaves. Augustus is said to have accidentally broken off Alexander the Great's nose when he visited the mummy, but not the other bit.
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ah ok i wasnt really sure i do like history but not a major in it by any means.
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Don't worry. Not many people know that detail, and you got pretty close!
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yeah i watch a lot of documentaries more than i watch anything else really got started when i was young when i got introduced national geographic explorer.
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