ILLUSTRATIONS.

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PAVEMENT DECORATION FROM THE PALACE OF AMONHOTEP III. (coloured)Frontispiece

CEILING DECORATION FROM THE PALACE OF AMONHOTEP III. (coloured)36

THOTHMES IV. SLAYING ASIATICS22

TUAU, GRANDMOTHER OF AKHNATON26

CHEST BELONGING TO YUAA28

QUEEN TIY30

YUAA, GRANDFATHER OF AKHNATON32

AMONHOTEP-SON-OF-HAPU, THE “WISE MAN” OF THE COURT OF AMONHOTEP III.34

SITE OF THE PALACE OF QUEEN TIY38

COFFIN OF YUAA40

AMONHOTEP III.54

AKHNATON58

THE ART OF AKHNATON COMPARED WITH ARCHAIC ART72

THE ARTIST AUTA76

AKHNATON AND NEFERTITI WITH THEIR THREE DAUGHTERS108

THE HEAD OF THE MUMMY OF THOTHMES IV., THE GRANDFATHER OF AKHNATON110

AKHNATON DRIVING WITH HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER130

AKHNATON AND HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN134

AN EXAMPLE OF THE FRIENDLY RELATIONS BETWEEN SYRIA

AND EGYPT190

CARVED WOODEN CHAIR, THE DESIGNS PARTLY COVERED WITH GOLD-LEAF202

AKHNATON. (From a Statuette in the Louvre)206

HEAD OF AKHNATON’S DAUGHTER208

LETTER FROM RIBADDI TO THE KING OF EGYPT, REPORTING THE PROGRESS OF THE REBELLION UNDER AZIRU. (British Museum, No. 29,801)234

DEATH MASK OF AKHNATON258

THE TEMPLE AT LUXOR270

MAP OF AKHETATON, THE CITY OF THE HORIZON OF ATON (TEL EL AMARNA)At end.

“How much Akhnaton understood we cannot say, but he had certainly bounded forward in his views and symbolism to a position which we cannot logically improve upon at the present day.”—Petrie: ‘History of Egypt.’

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AKHNATON.