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ever seen. And the princesses tumbled all over the palace. There
were six of them by now, and they were all, of course, gods,
and treated as such by the servants and majordomos and min­

isters, which all helped to make life pleasant in the extreme.

THE “new art” AT AKHETATEN. IN REACTION AGAINST THE CONVEN­
TION OF PORTRAYING THE PHARAOH LARGER AND MORE HANDSOME
THAN LIFE, AKHENATEN APPEARS TO HAVE ENCOURAGED HIS COURT
ARTISTS TO PRACTICE A REALISM THAT BORDERS ON CARICATURE. THIS
PORTRAIT OF AKHENATEN WITH ONE OF HIS DAUGHTERS WAS FOUND
IN THE RUINS OF HIS NEW CAPITAL OF AKHETATEN (TELL AL-
AMARNA ).

She took her divinity for granted, for she came, she knew,

of a long line of divine kings, stretching all the way back to
Amose, the liberator of Egypt, over two hundred years ago. And
she and her sisters were fully divine, for Nefertiti, their mother,
was also of the race of the gods, full sister to their father