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Tutankhamen
Amenism, Atenism And Egyptian Monotheism
By E.A.W. Budge. 1923
Keeper Of The Egyptian And Assyrian Antiquities In The British Museum
Notes
Preface
The Reign Of Tutankhamen
Tutankhamen and the Cult of Amen
A Hymn to Amen and Aten
The Cult of Aten, The God and Disk of the
Sun, Its Origin, Development And Decline
Development of the Cult of Aten Under
Amenhetep IV
A.--A Hymn to Aten by the King
B.--Hymn to Aten by Ai, Overseer of the Horse
of Aakhunaten
Hymns to the Sun-God
Egyptian Monotheism
Frontispiece
PAINTED LIMESTONE HEAD OF A QUEEN IN THE MUSEUM AT BERLIN.
It is supposed to represent Queen Nefertiti, wife of Amenhetep
IV
NOTES
The kings of the XVIIIth dynasty reigned about 230 years, i.e., from about B.C. 1580 to 1350; their names are as follows:--
Aahmes 1580, reigned about 22 years.
Amenhetep I, about 1558-7, reigned about 10 years.
Thothmes I, about 1546, reigned about 30 years.
Thothmes II, about 1500, reigned about 3 years.
Hatshepsut, Thothmes III about 1500 to 1447.
Amenhetep II, about 1448, reigned about 26 years.
Thothmes IV, about 1420, reigned about 8 years.
Amenhetep III, about 1412, reigned 36 years.
Amenhetep IV, about 1376, reigned 17 years.
Sakara, Tutankhamen, Ai reigned 8-12 years.
Heremheb, about 1350, reigned 34 years.
Redactors Note: the diacritical marks in the original have been omitted.
