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"title": "Talatat: Nefertiti Offers to the Aten",
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"title": "Exposition Akh\u00e9naton",
"description": "Exposition Akh\u00e9naton. Mus\u00e9e d'art et d'histoire, Gen\u00e9ve 3, Switzerland (organizer) (October 16, 2008-February 1, 2009); Fondazione Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy (February 26-June 14, 2009).",
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"description": "The son of Amenhotep III, Akenaten, brought about the short-lived \"monotheistic\" revolution in Egyptian religion near the end of Dynasty 18. The young king constructed a temple complex to the Aten, the Sun Disk, at Karnak\u2014where this relief originated\u2014before he moved his capital to El Amarna. For reasons unknown, the figure of the Queen Nefertiti appears in these reliefs far more often than that of the king. Ironically, the Aten temples were dismantled to be used as foundations and fill for adaptations to the Great Temple of Amun, whom the Aten had briefly displaced.",
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