Identifier: struggleofnation00maspuoft (find matches)
Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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chichle vonAllen JF.gypten, \>\>. 97-104, and Tiei.e, Geschichle der lieligion im AUertum, vol. i. p. 89. Ed. Meyerand Tide blend witli the political idea a nionotlieistic conception which does not seem to me to bofully justified, at least at present, by anything in the materials we possess. - His tomb was discovered iu 1878 Ijy ViLLiEits-STfAiiT, Nile Gleanings, pp. 297-302, and Egi/iitafter the War, pp. 369-392; cf. Bouriant, Le Tomheau de Ramses a Chiihh-Ahd-el-Gournah, iu tlieRevue Archifologique, 1882, vol. ii., and A Thebes, in the Recueil, vol. vi. pp. 55, 50. Drawn by Faucher-Gudiu, from a photograpli by Petkie, Tell el-Amarna, pi. i. 10, and frontis-piece; cf. the drawing in Lepsius, Dcnkm., iii. Ill, in which the likeness to that given above isstriking. Petrie tliinks that the monument discovered by liim, which is of fine plaster, is a cast ofthe dead king, executed possibly to enable the sculptors to make Ushabtiu, Kospoudonts, for him(Tell el-Amarna, pp. 17, 18, 10).
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THE MASK 01 KHLNIATONU. 326 THE EIQETEEKTH THEBAN DYNASTY. mode in which tliey were represented. The name and personality of an Egyptianwere so closely allied that interference with one implied interference with theother.^ Khuniatonu could not continue to be such as he was when Amen6thes>and, in fact, their respective portraits differ from each other to that degree that there is some doubt at moments as totheir identity. Amenothes is hardlyto be distinguished from his father:he has the same regular and somewhatheavy features, the same idealisedbody and conventional shape as thosewhich we find in the orthodoxPharaohs. Khuniatonu affects a longand narrow head, conical at the top,with a retreating forehead, a largeaquiline and pointed nose, a smallmouth, an enormous chin projectingin front, the whole being supported bya long, thin neck. His shoulders arenarrow, with little display of muscle,but his breasts are so full, his abdomenso prominent, and his hips so large,that one would thin

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