Pharaohs Of The Sun

Herdsman with a goat

Probably from Amarna
Reign of Akhenaten, 1353 - 1336 B.C.
Limestone;
h. 22.4 cm, w. 45.1 cm, d. 6.1 cm
Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation.
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York

In Akhenaten's "Great Hymn to Aten," he sets forth the worship of Aten as the creator of all things on earth, in all their variety, and speaks of Aten filling the world "with man and the family of creatures. " Many images of everyday activities appear in the carvings from Akhenaten's temples at Karnak and Amarna.


		Herdsman with a goat Probably from Amarna Reign of Akhenaten, 1353 - 1336 B.C. Limestone; h. 22.4 cm, w. 45.1 cm, d. 6.1 cm Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation. Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York In Akhenaten's "Great Hymn to Aten," he sets forth the worship of Aten as the creator of all things on earth, in all their variety, and speaks of Aten filling the world "with man and the family of creatures. " Many images of everyday activities appear in the carvings from Akhenaten's temples at Karnak and Amarna.