Great Hymn to the Aten

The long hymn of praise celebrating the Aten as universal creator, known from a single copy, now damaged, in Ay’s tomb at Amarna; often compared with Psalm 104. Attested; authorship by Akhenaten himself is tradition, not proof. The Short Hymn, carved in several Amarna tombs, is a different composition.

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