Tutankhamen E-Book

E. A. Wallis Budge

• Herausgeber: E. A. Wallis Budge
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

THE announcement made early in December, 1922, of the discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings in Western Thebes by the late Lord Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter sent a thrill of wonder and expectation through all the civilized peoples on the earth. In the accounts of the contents of the Tomb, which were published with admirable promptness and fullness in The Times, we read of bodies of chariots, chairs of state, gilded couches, royal apparel, boxes of trinkets and food and cosmetics and toilet requisites, large bitumenized wooden statues, alabaster vessels of hitherto unknown shapes and beauty, and countless other objects, until the mind reeled in its attempts to imagine the sight that met the eyes of the two discoverers when they entered the two outer chambers. Those who have seen the smaller objects and have enjoyed the privilege of examining them have been amazed at their exquisite beauty and finish; and there is no doubt that the importance of the "find," from an artistic point of view, can be expressed in words only with difficulty. It is easy to believe Sarwat Pasha when he says none of the accounts published have really done justice to the "finds," which, however, is not surprising, since their beauty is unique and indescribable (Times, Jan. 18, 1923, P. 9).

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E. A. Wallis Budge

Tutankhamen

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Table of contents

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

HYMNS TO THE SUN-GOD

EGYPTIAN MONOTHEISM

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.

PREFACE

THE announcement made early in December, 1922, of the discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings in Western Thebes by the late Lord Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter sent a thrill of wonder and expectation through all the civilized peoples on the earth. In the accounts of the contents of the Tomb, which were published with admirable promptness and fullness in The Times, we read of bodies of chariots, chairs of state, gilded couches, royal apparel, boxes of trinkets and food and cosmetics and toilet requisites, large bitumenized wooden statues, alabaster vessels of hitherto unknown shapes and beauty, and countless other objects, until the mind reeled in its attempts to imagine the sight that met the eyes of the two discoverers when they entered the two outer chambers. Those who have seen the smaller objects and have enjoyed the privilege of examining them have been amazed at their exquisite beauty and finish; and there is no doubt that the importance of the "find," from an artistic point of view, can be expressed in words only with difficulty. It is easy to believe Sarwat Pasha when he says none of the accounts published have really done justice to the "finds," which, however, is not surprising, since their beauty is unique and indescribable (