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Frontmatter

© 2017 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

© 2017 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Contents v
List of Figures vii
List of Color Plates x
Acknowledgments xi
1. Introduction 1
2. Provenance and Object History 9
3. The Block and Its Decoration 15
4. The Aten Cartouches and Epithets 33
5. Architectural Inlay 41
6. Reconstruction of the Meritaten Sunshade Chapel 53
7. The Chapel of Meritaten and the Amarna Period Sunshades 77
8. The House-of-Waenre 107
9. A Heliopolitan Horizon-of-the-Aten? 119
10. Damnatio Memoriae 127
11. Ramesside Reuse at Heliopolis 131
12. Reuse of the Meritaten Sunshade Block in Islamic Cairo 141
13. Conclusions 147
References 155

The Sunshade Chapel of Meritaten from the House-of-Waenre of Akhenaten

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https://doi.org/10.9783/9781934536889-fm

Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Contents v
List of Figures vii
List of Color Plates x
Acknowledgments xi
1. Introduction 1
2. Provenance and Object History 9
3. The Block and Its Decoration 15
4. The Aten Cartouches and Epithets 33
5. Architectural Inlay 41
6. Reconstruction of the Meritaten Sunshade Chapel 53
7. The Chapel of Meritaten and the Amarna Period Sunshades 77
8. The House-of-Waenre 107
9. A Heliopolitan Horizon-of-the-Aten? 119
10. Damnatio Memoriae 127
11. Ramesside Reuse at Heliopolis 131
12. Reuse of the Meritaten Sunshade Block in Islamic Cairo 141
13. Conclusions 147
References 155

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