January 30, 2008 02:58AM
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And most likely 5) Some combination of
> 1-4 mixed with something we never thought about.
First things I thought of:
When are the bodies from? How many are there? Are they from the beginning of the construction, or at the end, when the city was eventually abandoned?
A cult of personality, like Kim Sung-il? Think real hard. He's Pharaoh, the intermediary between earth & the gods. He's from a family that has ruled for a very long time. He wasn't placed there by a military coup or held there by a vicious communist regime. We are not talking about a populist leader who seized power or led a revolt to gain command.
I believe it was Redford who made a connection between Akhenaten & Ayatollah Khomeni back in the 80s, a bad analogy if there ever was one.
How many laborers do we have for, say, Memphis or Karnak? You'd have to have a comparable population from somewhere else to determine if the assumptions are correct.
Also, how many commoner's homes have been excavated? There have been images found in at least some of the non-elite homes. But for Joe Average Egyptian, what would he have at home? We think we know all the icons for Atenism, but do we? Do we know how the ancient standbys--lotus, ankh, udjet--were percieved & used? Did they have any new connotations? We have no way of knowing what was believed by the average guy in Amarna. He may have accepted it as a new way of dealing with the gods, or he may have shrugged & got on with his life.
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