Talk:Akhenaten

Name

There are 2 entries for him: see also Akhnaten. User:Olivier

Yes but: Akhnaten is the play isnt it? User:Es02

This guy is also Amenophis IV (see, for example History of Egypt). Amenophis doesn't sound at all like Amenothep to me, why the two spellings (or names).

Amenophis is the Greek version of Amenhotep ... which in itself is just a rough transliteration of the hieroglyphic. User:Ffabris

co-rule with Amenhotep III confirmed

Apparently a new find in Luxor confirmed that Amenhotep IV, alias Akhenaten, did have a period of co-rule with his father Amenhotep III. A mural painting dating from Amenhotep III's Heb Sed shows both pharaoh's together with their names mentioned together. According to the minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim Ali al-Sayed, this is an important find. Alas I can only find a Dutch language newspaper source: http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20140206_00967016 Has anyone a English language source confirming this?-- fdewaele, 6 February 2014, 18:27 CET

Semi-protected edit request on 11 August 2023

Change "Christie, and Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth (1985) by Naguib Mahfouz." to "Christie, Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth (1985) by Naguib Mahfouz, and Out of the Black Land (2010) by Kerry Greenwood." Asura99 (talk) 19:16, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

File:Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Xan747 ✈️ 🧑‍✈️ 15:12, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

Hieroglyphic ?

Subsection Implementation and Development, of section Atenism, has a sentence, "Representations of the Aten were always accompanied with a sort of hieroglyphic footnote...". I don't think hieroglyphic is meant literally here, but it doesn't really work figuratively in this context. So it would be good to either replace it, or elaborate on the hieroglyphics Stephanwehner (talk) 19:03, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Heiroglyphs are always a little speculative. I mean in the prenomen there is a harpoon glyph. It's not a harpoon. It's a come-along, or crane-windlass. It's manqanon(coptic). The combination Maunkare and Amon-re(waen-re is plain wrong), with the 3 victories from Maunkere. 2600:1700:5980:5190:3CB1:EC8C:9C5C:49D1 (talk) 02:30, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 February 2025

I need to add some more images 35.151.84.185 (talk) 20:08, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

File:Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. LizardJr8 (talk) 23:58, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Adonis and Freud

"Freud commented on the connection between Adonai, the Egyptian Aten and the Syrian divine name of Adonis as stemming from a common root; in this he was following the argument of Egyptologist Arthur Weigall. Jan Assmann's opinion is that 'Aten' and 'Adonai' are not linguistically related."

-- This is a worthy comment for multiple reasons. I entirely support it. But it's not really correct, like the quote says. Adonis has links to Rhodes(Note: the quote says Syria, but Adonis is Rhodes and not Syria).

The relevant quote is Helios built the city of the sun in Egypt with the help of the Rhodian Prince named Aktis.

So Akhenaten was deified by the Greeks as Helios. And his city of the sun was Akhetaten. And there is a Rhodian connection. And he has a son name Ph-aethon, which preserves the word Aton. In fact his whole family was deified in Greek mythology.

The wife of Helios(Neaera vs Nefertiti). Clymenus(re-arranged Smenkare)(read backwards like a prince and not a pharaoh) Merope(Meritaten) Tut (Phaethon) Ankhsenamun(Phaethusa, his sister) Heliades(6 daughters of Akhenaten) 2600:1700:5980:5190:3CB1:EC8C:9C5C:49D1 (talk) 02:47, 12 May 2025 (UTC)