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Junto a su esposo Tutmosis IV, la reina Nefertiti protagonizó uno de los periodos más fascinantes de la historia egipcia: el faraón revolucionó la religión de su reino instaurando un culto monoteísta a Atón, cambió su nombre por el de Akhenatón y fundó una nueva capital, Amarna.
Akhenatón acabaría trasladando la capital del país a Amarna, en el Egipto Medio, donde el faraón levantó de la nada una gran ciudad con bellos palacios y magníficos templos destinados a mayor gloria del nuevo dios principal de Egipto.
De hecho, ha llegado hasta nosotros una singular estela de cuarcita, en forma de tabernáculo, procedente de Amarna, de 76 centímetros de altura y que hoy se expone en el Museo Egipcio de Berlín, que es una representación del prestigioso escultor y de su esposa, la dama Tahery, y que posiblemente fue realizada por el mismo Bek.
Nefertiti, queen of Egypt and wife of King Akhenaton, who played a prominent role in the cult of the sun god known as the Aton. Nefertiti became one of the most recognizable female figures from the ancient world after a portrait bust of her was found in the 20th century and brought to Berlin.
Akhenaten - Amarna, Monotheism, Pharaoh: In the fifth year of his reign, the king changed his name from Amenhotep (“Amon Is Content”) to Akhenaten (“Beneficial to Aton”). Nefertiti’s name was expanded to Neferneferuaten (“Beautiful Is the Beauty of Aton”)-Nefertiti.
While ancient Egyptians had no conception of religion as a distinct sphere of life, modern scholars have identified a wide range of Egyptian beliefs and practices relating to the divine. Egyptian religion can be traced back to predynastic times, and it developed continuously until the decline of temple religion in the Roman Period.
Akhenaten, king of ancient Egypt of the 18th dynasty, who established a new cult dedicated to the Aton, the sun’s disk. Under his idiosyncratic rule, the capital was moved from Thebes to Akhetaton (Tell el-Amarna), where clay tablets (Amarna Letters) were discovered that provide insight into his diplomatic relations.
