by hadassah | Aug 3, 2008 | The Sojourn and Slavery in Egypt
Statue of Khnum Khnum was regarded as god of creation and guardian of the Nile’s sources at Elephantine. The lands beyond the First Cataract were unknown at the time, and the First Cataract was regarded as the source of the Nile. Khnum was in general...
by hadassah | Jul 31, 2008 | The Sojourn and Slavery in Egypt
Letter from Yapahu, 14th century BCE Yapahu was ruler of the city of Gazru-(modern Gezer) and the author of five of the Amarna Letters. One of his letters, EA 299, “A plea for help,” is a request for help from attaks by a people called the...
by hadassah | Jul 30, 2008 | The Sojourn and Slavery in Egypt
Offering to the Aten, c. 1345 BCE Akhenaten, Nefertiti and two daughters offering to the Aten from El-Amarna The sun disc, the Aten, was the only deity at the center of the new religion of King Akhenaten. The simplicity of its form caused some difficulties for...
by hadassah | Jul 30, 2008 | The Sojourn and Slavery in Egypt
Wall Painting on Plaster, c. 1425 BCE Nubians bringing tribute, and banquet scenes with female musicians and a servant girl, in the tomb of vizier Rekhmire at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna (the west bank at Thebes). Malek, Jaromir, Egypt; 4000 years of Art. London-...
by hadassah | Jul 30, 2008 | The Sojourn and Slavery in Egypt
Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) Kissing His Daughter, 1352-1336 BCE Father of Tutankhamen Not long after Amenhotep III died, in 1353 B.C., masons entered his mortuary temple and methodically chiseled out every mention of Amun, the god said to have fathered the great...
by hadassah | Jul 30, 2008 | The Sojourn and Slavery in Egypt
Head of Amenhotep III, c. 1350 BCE This head, originally part of a larger statue, was found in the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III in Thebes, Egypt. Amenhotep III reigned from c. 1390 – c. 1352 BCE. He is shown wearing a red crown, the symbol of Lower Egypt....
