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“Great Hymn to the Aten”

( ca. 1348 BCE )

Further Reading

Books

  • Aldred, Cyril. Akhenaten, King of Egypt. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1988.
  • Assmann, Jan. The Search for God in Ancient Egypt, trans. David Lorton. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001.
  • Breasted, James Henry. The Dawn of Conscience. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933.
  • Davies, Norman de Garis. The Rock Tombs of El Amarna. Part VI: Tombs of Parennefer, Tutu and Aÿ. London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1908.
  • Hornung, Erik. Akhenaten and the Religion of Light, trans. David Lorton. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999.
  • Martin, Geoffrey Thorndike. The Hidden Tombs of Memphis: New Discoveries from the Time of Tutankhamun and Ramses the Great. London: Thames and Hudson, 1991.
  • Murnane, William J., and Edmund S. Meltzer. Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.
  • Plutarch. Isis and Osiris. In Plutarch’s Moralia. Vol. 5: 351C–438E, trans. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1936.
  • Redford, Donald B. Akhenaten: The Heretic King. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984.
  • Scott, Walter. Hermetica: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus. 4 vols. Boston: Shambhala, 1985.
  • Witt, R. E. Isis in the Graeco-Roman World. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1971.

Journals

  • Dodson, Aidan. “Were Nefertiti & Tutankhaten Coregents?” KMT 20, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 41–49.
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