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Both Stela K and Stela M are located in the southern side of the site and the text in their horizontal lines reads from left to right, away from the center of the site. Stela X is located in the northern side of the site and it is a mirror image of stelae K and M in that its horizontal lines read from right to left, also away from the center. [8]
The Stela of Akhenaten and his family is the name for an altar image in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo which depicts the Pharaoh Akhenaten, his queen Nefertiti, and their three children. The limestone stela with the inventory number JE 44865 is 43.5 × 39 cm in size and was discovered by Ludwig Borchardt in Haoue Q 47 at Tell-el Amarna in 1912. [ 1 ]
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On the stela Bek states that he is "the apprentice whom His Majesty taught". It is likely that he oversaw the making of the statues which show Akhenaten and his family in an overly naturalistic style, breaking with the idealised depiction that tradition demanded. [5] A stela (now in Berlin) shows Bek with his wife Taheret. This is possibly the ...
On Boundary Stela K, one of the sixteen large granite stelae that set the boundaries of Ahketaten, [3] Akhenaten dictated the tombs beyond the royal necropolis to include "Let there be a tomb made for The God's Father." This tomb could be the evidence of that edict being carried out.
Statues to the left of Boundary stela U in el-Amarna. This text then goes on to state that Akhenaten made a great oblation to the god Aten "and this is the theme [of the occasion] which is illustrated in the lunettes of the stelae where he stands with his queen and eldest daughter before an altar heaped with offerings under the Aten, while it ...
The text refers to a building project in Amarna and establishes that Akhenaten and Nefertiti were still a royal couple just a year before Akhenaten's death. [ 121 ] [ 122 ] [ 123 ] The inscription is dated to Year 16, month 3 of Akhet , day 15 of the reign of Akhenaten.
The Coregency Stela is an ancient Egyptian stela dating from the late Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. It consists of seven limestone fragments, which were found in a tomb at Amarna . The tablet shows the figures of Akhenaten , Nefertiti , and Meritaten .