ID: 700008936 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008936	Record Type: Built Work
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Great Temple of the Aten (temple (building); N/A; 14th century BCE; Amarna (Al Minyā, Miṣr, Africa, World, Top of the TGN ...; )

Note: Great temple that was located in the city of el-Amarna, Egypt, as main temple of worship of Aten during the reign of the 18th-dynasty Pharaoh Akhenaten (ca. 1353-1336 BCE). Was made in haste, primarily of mud brick; lay along an east-west axis beside the Nile. Was destroyed after the death of Akhenaten.

Titles:

Great Temple of the Aten (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

temple (building) [300007595] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, ceremonial structures, religious structures, religious buildings)

Classifications:

architecture (preferred)

Creation Date: 14th century BCE

Creator Display:

N/A [preferred]

unknown (unknown cultural designation) [500125274]

Locations:

Current: al-ʻAmārnah [7001195] Al Minyā (governorate), Egypt (nation), Africa (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Address Note: 27.650°N 30.901°E

Display Materials: primarily mud brick; palm columns

	sun-dried brick [300081146]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, clay, <clay by product>, brick (clay material), <brick by technique>, <brick by technique: drying process>)

Dimensions: unavailable

Events:

destruction: after 1336 BCE

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Eighteenth Dynasty (Egyptian) [300020355] (preferred,period)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, Early Western World, Mediterranean (Early Western World), Egyptian (ancient), Egyptian periods, New Kingdom (Egyptian))

General Subject:

architecture (preferred,isness)

religion and mythology (purpose)

Specific Subjects:

	Aton [901001334]
	.....((Egyptian characters, Egyptian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Related Works:

	is architectural context for .... Colossal Head of Akhenaten [700008625]
	..........sculpture (visual works); unknown Egyptian, New Kingdom; ca. 1350 BCE ; Egyptian Museum (Cairo, Cairo, Egypt)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Built Works

.......... Built Works by class: religious, ceremonial, and funerary structures

Sources and Contributors:
Great Temple of the Aten	........ [VP]
	........ El-Shahawy and Atiya, Egyptian Museum in Cairo (2005)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... El-Shahawy and Atiya, Egyptian Museum in Cairo (2005)
	..... Bard, Archaeology of Ancient Egypt (2007)