Great Hymn to the Aten’s Connections

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Created by

• Akhenaten

  Akhenaten composed or commissioned the Great Hymn to the Aten, inscribed in the tomb of Ay at Akhetaten, praising the sun disk as sole creator and sustainer of all life.

Associated with

• Akhetaten

  The Great Hymn to the Aten was composed and inscribed at Akhetaten, the purpose-built capital where Atenist theology reached its fullest expression in tomb reliefs and temple inscriptions.

• Aten

  The Great Hymn to the Aten declares the sun disk sole creator of all life and lands, the only god who made the world and sustains it — the fullest theological statement of Atenism, praising the Aten as the one deity who needs no other beside him.

• Ay

  The Great Hymn to the Aten was inscribed in thirteen columns on the west wall of Ay's tomb at Akhetaten, preserving the central text of Atenism in the burial chamber of Akhenaten's trusted courtier.

• Nefertiti

  Nefertiti's name appears alongside Akhenaten's in the framework of the Great Hymn to the Aten, the queen named as co-recipient of the sun disk's grace and co-intermediary between god and people.