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Private religion at Amarna : the material evidence
Anna Stevens
Oxford : Archaeopress, 2006
ISBN: 1407300008
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Book description
At the height of its occupation, Amarna was the administrative,
political and religious centre of Egypt. Estimates of the city's
population at this time range between 20,000 and 50,000 people. A
small but influential number were officials, of various ranks, in the direct
service of the state. The religious landscape now may be very
different from how it was in the past, but the sense that religion in
everyday contexts has a distinctive character can, it seems, be projected
back in time.
There are two broad research questions that frame this study: what was the
structure of the private religious landscape at Amarna, and what were the
ideas that shaped this landscape?
The publication is divided into three parts and the study concludes with a
discussion of the motivating factors that underlay religious conduct, and
which open a small window onto the ideas that shaped the religious landscape
more broadly.
About the author
Anna Stevens obtains her Doctorate at Monash University.
This monograph is based upon a PhD dissertation submitted in the Centre
for Archaeology and Ancient History, Monash University. The task
of revising it for publication was undertaken largely whilst a Visiting
Scholar in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
Cambridge, and Honorary Research Associate at Monash University.
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