My Nonno and Nonna took my sister and I to the Brooklyn Museum for the first time over 15 ππΎ years ago – one of the things I loved most about it was the beautiful collection of artifacts from the Amarna Period – aka the rule of Akhenaten ππππ³π ππ!
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This piece is a fragment of a statue πππππΎ of Akhenaten ππππ³π ππ. Although the cartouches have been βerased,β stylistically, the statue πππππΎ is obviously of him due to the way the chest is carved.
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Petrie is credited with finding this – he found 17 ππ partial statues πππππΎπͺ of Akhenaten ππππ³π ππ and Nefertiti ππππ³π€π€π€π€π€πππ during his excavation of the city in the 1890s. He also found tons of statues πππππΎπͺ that seemed to be purposefully smashed. Akhenaten ππππ³π ππ and Nefertiti ππππ³π€π€π€π€π€πππ were definitely unpopular due to not only moving Egyptβs ππ ππ capital but also because they changed the religion from polytheistic to the monotheistic worship of the Aten ππππ³. This mass destruction of the statues πππππΎπͺ showed that the Egyptians πππππͺ wanted to erase Akhenatenβs ππππ³π ππ rule.