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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

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

"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)[reply]

What are all these points around Aten? It is centred ON. 142.205.202.71 (talk) 17:19, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Per wiktionary:center#Verb:

The indirect object of the intransitive verb is given the prepositions on, in, at or around. At is primarily used only in mathematical contexts. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary observes that center around is objected to by some people on the grounds that it is illogical, but states that it is an idiom, and thus that such objections are irrelevant.

For what it's worth, I had far more trouble figuring out what kind of issue you were having, and where the passage was that was relevant to said issue, than I or most anyone would ever have understanding the use of centred on in a sentence. Food for thought. Remsense 🌈 论 17:33, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]