[UA] Akhenaten

[Timothy Ferguson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]On
> Behalf Of Emily Dresner-Thornber

> While we don't have the guy's body, we have plenty of written literature
> from the Egyptians, Akkadians, and in Ugartic that says, in a nutshell,
> "Holy Crap, he's dead!"

Um, correction - we -do- have Akhenaton's body.  I saw pictures of it on
television on one of our religious documentary programs, about an English
archaeologist wanting to dig in Al-Armarja.  He demonstrated that many of
Tutankhamon's burial goods are designed for a woman.  He claims this is
because, for the burial of Tutankhamun - who died a child - there was no
time to get together burial goods, so they just used those of his mother and
father (Akhenaton and Nefertiti).  When Al-Armarja was abandoned, they took
the pharoahs with them, and we now know which one was Anhkhenaton - he was
misidentified as female in an earlier search.  His statues demonstrate he
had a gracile, feminised look.

> There's some fine archeological conspiratorial nonsense about Akhenaten,
> his brother-in-law Smenkekarre,

The theory on Compass was that Smenkekarre - his co-regent- might have been
his wife.  We know Neferititi changed her name at least twice anyway, so
what is one more?  It makes the stele record of him lazing around in bed
with his co-regent a little less odd, too.


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