What did Amarna's Fresco add to Akhenaten's Era? | ||||
| حولية الاتحاد العام للآثاريين العرب "دراسات فى آثار الوطن العربى" | ||||
| Article 69, Volume 12, Issue 12, 2009, Page 57-72 PDF (189.36 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/cguaa.2009.39004 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Nour Galal Abdel Hamid | ||||
| Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts Archaeology Department, Ain Shams Universit | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Few palaces from ancient Egypt have survived. The best preserved remains come from Amarna (Akhet-Aten), landscape filled with palaces, tombs, temples, worker's village and roads which connected them. The city was built on an organized plan allowed the Amarna inhabitants to live a peaceful and prosperous life[1]. The construction method consisted of mainly from sun-dried mud brick[2], little like columns, frame doors from stones. It was constructed quickly Akhenaten began building palaces around to act as, religious, cultural, administrative. The palaces advanced with columns had their own storage magazines. From such ruins of the structures wealth of art from Amarna Fresco era can be admired today in the different museums.[3] Art reflecting a period of extraordinary development. I will shed light on more theme relating to Amarna's Fresco such as: Description, Originality. I will try to determine how they prepared these walls and grounds and the relation of these paintings to Aten's religion since most of them are landscapes which reveal his beliefs, thus what was cosmos mean over the course of Akhenaten's life. I will also try to examine the position of these paintings and whether it is suitable to walk above them. Fresco is any of several related painting types done on plaster, there are two types: [1]B. Kemp, Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of civilization, London, 1989, 261-317; id., World Archaeology 9(1917-1978), 132-139. [2]O. Davies, Innovation in the Mud – Brick: Decorative and Structural Techniques in: Ancient Mesopotamia, world Archaeology 21(1990), 388; H. Fathy, Courna, A tale of two villages, Cairo, 1969, 63; Spencer, Brick Architecture in Ancient Egypt, Warminster, 1979, 140-41; Gurcke, Bricks and Brick making, A Handbook for Historical Archaeology, Moscow, 1989; Mcdwell, Village life in Ancient Egypt, Oxford, University Press, 1999; D. Arnold, Building in Egypt, Pharaonic stone Masonry, New York, and oxford, 1991; id., The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture, The American University in Cairo Press 2003, p. 34. [3] A few Paintings remaining; F. Petrie, Tell El Amarna, London, 1894, 14-15. H. Frankfort, (ed.), The Mural Painting of El- Amarna, London(1929), 67; F. Weatherhead, Recording and conservation of painted plaster from early excavation at Amarna in: Davies, W.(ed.), Color and Painting in Ancient Egypt, United Kingdom, 2001, 53-59. | ||||
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