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Tie, Big Temple of Amarna
The Big Temple of Aten is placed in the godforsaken city of Akhetaten (the modern Amarna). It is one of two big temples of the city, being other the Small Temple.
Because of its place and other characteristics, certain elements of the city are of the best preserved ones in Egypt. Several of them cannot be considered to be typical. Due to the need to accelerate its construction, some aspects of the city differ from the ancient Egyptian norm.
Scarcely there survives nothing of what in due time it was an important and impressive complex. The realized excavations have allowed to recover some of the decorated blocks of stone. They were containing scenes of the Pharaoh and of the members of its family presenting gifts to the solar disc. Most of the reliefs of Amarna were executed on limestone blocks following a style much more developed and more refined than in other temples in which sandstone was used.
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