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| The Nefertiti Bust (1) |
Kimmo Huosionmaa
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In the Neues Museum of Berlin is one mysterious statue from the ancient Egypt. That statue itself is one the most well-known objects from ancient Egypt. Many people know this fascinated statue as the Bust of Queen Nefertiti. The reason why that statue was made is clear. It has been used for testing Queen Nefertiti's jewelry. The mystery of that wooden statue is very complicated. It is the way that the sculptor has been figure some details in the face of this queen. First, the left eye is made without the sharp or another way that Queen of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV:n who changed his name as Akhnaton had a cataract, but why the man who made that statue didn’t cover that thing.
Even today there will be catastrophic if that kind of thing is straight to see for the people. And in the ancient Egypt the pharaoh was the god, and if he says something or somebody did something that was against pharaohs will, that person might go to meal for crocodiles. So why that handicapped eye was not painted as another eye? The second question is why that bust so well remains? Other queens and kings are made that kind of statues, and only Nefertiti bust is in this condition. The condition of that wooden statue is so good, that it might put in the shopping window.
So why somebody didn’t destroy that statue when Akhenaten died and his version of the religion was lost by the order of the priests of Ammon. Akhnaten was the pharaoh who wanted to change the highest god of the Egypt to Aton, and that was the reason why the priests murdered that pharaoh. But why the statue of Nefertiti didn’t destroy by those priests? And there is another strange thing in the Nefertiti. Why that queen raised in so powerful situation when she sat on the side of the pharaoh?
And the final question is, who was this queen, who raised to the power of the Egypt? The archaeologists think that she was from another country. And probably she had supporters in that another country. And the reason why Akhenaten took the wife from another country might be the cause, that man had problems to marry Egyptian woman. The reason for that might be very unusual.
Was Nefertiti chosen to the queen of the Egypt because Akhnaten lost his family tree? If that family tree has been lost, was the possibility that Pharaoh was married his own sister, and that might cause the situation when pharaohs children might degenerate. And for denying the inbreeding, must the pharaoh marry the woman from another country. The pharaoh was the most powerful man in the Egypt, but if the priests saw that Pharaoh was going to marry some woman who was not their level, they just killed that person, because they wanted to support priests power in the society.
The pharaoh was only the public use of the power, and that is the reason why there were so many secrets in the Egypt. The priests used the power as feministic way. They hired back to the pharaoh and crooned their ideas to the ear of the pharaoh. And Pharaoh was the link between priests and ordinary Egyptians. He was a shield who protected those priests secret power and also was head of the Egyptian army. That was the very risky job in that time because the head of the army went to the battle ahead of the troops and then was a risk that this man dies.
If Akhenaten would marry some Egyptian who was below him, there was a risk that the pharaohs secrets were leaked to persons, who were not proper persons to hear them. The pharaoh might not want that his lifestyle was uncovered to regular people. And that’s why he must be very sharp about the person who he wants to marry. If the person was wrong, the result might be dangerous for him. That might be the reason, why the pharaoh wanted the wife who comes from another country.
Sources
1. The Nefertiti Bust (1) CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=283003
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