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"Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen" is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The exhibition is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, dedicated to expanding American understanding of history and culture.

 


Additional support is provided by TH Lee, Putnam Capital and Norma-Jean and Stanford Calderwood.
The media sponsor in Boston is WBZ-TV 4.

 


Additional support for this interactive program is provided by The George Gund Foundation, the Lowell Institute, the Kenan E. Sahin Interactive Museum Initiative, and Mary Newman.
 

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Project Coordinator
Nancy Allen, Department of Information Resources

Written by
Barbara T. Martin, Department of Education and Public Programs
Peter Der Manuelian, Departments of Art of the Ancient World and Information Resources
Margaret K. Burchenal, Department of Education and Public Programs

Digital photography consultant
John Woolf, Department of Information Resources

Produced with the participation of the following:
Department of Art of the Ancient World
Rita E. Freed, Sue D’Auria, Yvonne Markowitz
Department of Information Resources
Kristin Bierfelt, Hilary Block, Greg Heins, Tom Lang, Nicole Luongo, Jennifer Riley, Gary Ruuska, Angela Segalla
Department of Education and Public Programs
Gilian F. Shallcross
Division of External Relations
Jennifer Cooper, Philip Getchell
Department of Exhibitions and Design
Valerie McGregor, Janet O’Donoghue
MFA Enterprise
David Sturtevant

With special thanks to
Katherine Getchell
Malcolm Rogers
The Amarna Project

©The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1999

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Producer
James Sheldon

 

 

Developed at:
ZEFER, Boston

 

Application and Interface Design
David Clark
Heesung Jeon
Siobhan Kelleher
James Sheldon

ZEFER Project Management
Siobhan Kelleher

Graphic Design
Heesung Jeon

Programming
Andy Burstein
Will Dzierson
Dick Melde
Heesung Jeon
Siobhan Kelleher
Robert Torres

Application Editor
Shirley Veenema

Video Segments
James Sheldon - Director / Editor
David Constine - Camera / Editor
Owen Curtain, Kristy Spilman - Audio
Michael Dalby - Narrator

Archival film footage, site photographs of Amarna, and line drawings of tomb reliefs courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society.
Architectural model of Amarna created by Andrew Ingham & Associates with Michael Mallinson Architects, architectural consultant, and Barry Kemp, University of Cambridge, archaeological consultant. Filming of model by Frank Muhly, Jr., Paul A. Roselli, Michael Mulvey, and Dan Hnatio.
Film footage of Amarna courtesy of WBZ, Boston, MA.
Hieroglyph transliterator application courtesy of Mark Northrup, 17 Web Place
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Works of art reproduced courtesy of the following institutions:
Abu’l Good Storeroom, Luxor
Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
The British Museum, London
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
The Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Josephson Collection
Kestner-Museum, Hannover
Luxor, The Luxor Museum
The Manchester Museum, Manchester
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Munich, Staatliche Sammlung Ägyptischer Kunst
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, Liverpool
National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh
The Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden
The San Diego Museum of Man, San Diego
The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

Additional photographs courtesy of
Mohammed Gabr
Gwil Owen
Brian Snyder

Additional images used in animated activities:

Tour Akhenaten's Court
The rewarding of the deceased, tomb of Ay.
Norman de Garis Davies, The Rock Tombs of El-Amarna, vol. 6. (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1903-8).

Whose Feet?
Royal feet; Amarna, found at Hermopolis; reign of Akhenaten, 1353-1336 B.C.; limestone. H. 23.4 cm, W. 55.6 cm, d. 3.3 cm. Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund. Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York.

Talatat puzzle
Relief of a royal barge with Nefertiti smiting an enemy; Amarna, found at Hermopolis; reign of Akhenaten, 1353-1336 B.C.; limestone. H. 23.9 cm, W. 54 cm, d. 3.5 cm. Egyptian Curator's Fund. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1964 64.521

River scene with royal barges; Amarna, found at Hermopolis; reign of Akhenaten, 1353-1336 B.C.; limestone. H. 23.4 cm, W. 53.1 cm, d. 3.6 cm. Helen and Alice Colburn Fund. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1963 63.260

Royal barges with Akhenaten smiting an enemy; Amarna, found at Hermopolis; reign of Akhenaten, 1353-1336 B.C.; limestone. H. 24 cm, W. 54.2 cm, d. 3.5 cm. Gift of Norbert Schimmel, 1985. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Virtual dig
Entrance

Door jamb of Nefer's chapel; from Giza, tomb of Nefer G 2110; Dynasty 4, about 2575-2550 B.C.; limestone. H: 95 cm W: 0.09 cm. Museum Expedition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1907 07.1002

Chapel

False door of Khufu-Ankh; from Giza, tomb G 4520; Dynasty 5, about 2524-2400
B.C.; limestone; H: 2.96 m.; W: 1.83 m. Museum Expedition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1921 21.3081

Offering table of Khufu-Ankh; from Giza, tomb G 4520; Dynasty 5, about 2524-2400 B.C.; limestone; H. 10 cm; L. 44 cm; W. 25 cm. Museum Expedition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1947 47.1634

Relief from the tomb of Qar; from Giza, tomb G 7101; Dynasty 6, about 2390-2250 B.C.; H. 62 cm; W. 118 cm. Museum Expedition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1927 27.1134
Serdab (Statue chamber)

Pair statue of Ptah-khenui and his wife; from Giza, tomb G 2004; Old Kingdom, mid-to late Dynasty 5, about 2524-2400 B.C.; painted limestone; H: 70.1 cm. Museum Expedition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1906 06.1876Burial chamber objects

Sarcophagus of Meresankh II; from Giza, tomb G 7410B; Dynasty 4, about 2606-2550 B.C.; red granite; L. 2.05 m H. with lid 1.20 m W. 93.5 cm. Museum Expedition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1927 27.441a-b

Bead-net dress; from Giza, tomb of Min-khaf, G 7440 Z; Dynasty 4, reign of Khufu, 2606-2583 B.C.; faience; H. 113 cm; W. 44 cm. Museum Expedition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1927 27.1548

"Reserve head" of a woman; from Giza, tomb G 4440; Dynasty 4, about 2630-2524 B.C.; limestone; H: 30 cm. Museum Expedition Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1914 14.719

Set of canopic jars; from Giza, tomb G 4733E; Old Kingdom, about 2630-2524
B.C.; limestone; H (average): 28.3 cm; Diam. (average): 16.9 cm. Museum
Expedition Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1920 20.1943a-d

  

 

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