"Akhenaten’s temples incorporated vast open-air courts with offering tables and unroofed shrines. The cult image, of course, was no longer a statue hidden deep in the sanctuary, but the Aten above."
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Anna Stevens, as quoted in "Akhenaten: mad, bad, or brilliant?" by Alastair Sooke, in The Telegraph (9 January 2014)
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Akhenaten
Akhenaten, also spelled Akhenaton, Akhnaton, Ikhnaton, or Echnaton (meaning "Effective Spirit of Aten"), and known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV (sometimes given its Greek form, Amenophis IV, meaning "Amun is Satisfied"), was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, who ruled for 17 years and died in 1336 BC or 1334 BC. He is especially noted for abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism and introducing worship centered on the Aten, which is sometimes described as mono
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