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The reign of Tutankhamen lasted only ten years on the throne and yet his tomb contained more than 5000 objects for his journey in the Beyond.
Sacred pharaoh at the age of 9, on the death of his father Akhenaton, consi- dered a heretic for having installed the cult of the unique god, Rê-Horakhty, the sun. During the reign of the very young sovereign, ancient traditions were restored, Memphis became the capital of the kingdom with the reopening of the temples to abandon the gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt.
The high dignitaries and priests had never accepted the changes brought by Akhenaton and the youth of the child king allowed them to reinstate the old traditions.
However, if we look at the statutes of the young pharaoh, we see the artistic imprint of aesthetic canons imposed by his father.
Indeed, unlike the art of the time of Ramses the Great, ruler of the nineteenth dynasty to the longest and richest reign in the history of Egypt, the body of Tutankhamun is represented with the same softness in the breasts and belly, following the rules that his father had established for his own representations and those of his own to be closer to an earthly reality instead of being closer to an ideal model according to the divine lineage of pharaoh.
Egyptian craftsmen were always masters in the manufacture of the most so- phisticated objects to pay homage to the pharaoh, true god on earth.
Since the discovery by Carter, the techniques of science have made impor- tant discoveries about Tutankhamun’s life, his family and his treasure.
An unavoidable exhibition, a real initiatory and mythical journey.
Gilded Ankh mirror case inlaid with blue glass and carnelian GEM 405
18th Dynasty, reign of Tutankhamun, 1336 - 1326 BC AD Wood, gold leaf, silver leaf, glass, soapstone, carnelian Length 27 cm; width 13.20;
depth 4 cm
Luxor, Valley of the Kings, KV62, Treasure Chamber