Brugsch, Heinrich: Egypt under the pharaohs: a history derived entirely from the monuments (London, 1891)

dyn. xviii. THE NEW CAPITAL, KHTJ-ATEN 217

splendid temple of hard stone, in honour of the Sun-God
Aten, composed of many buildings, with open courts,
in which fire-altars.were set up. The plan of the great
huilding was new, with little of the Egyptian character,
and arranged in a peculiar manner. The dwelling also
of the king and of the queen Eefer-it Thi, and the abodes
for her children—seven young princesses, Mi-aten,
Mak-aten, Ankh-nes-aten, Neferu-aten, Ta-shera, Neferu-
Ea, Sotep-en-Ea, and Bek-aten—and for his sister-in-law,
Net'em-mut, were executed in great splendour near the
temple of the Sun, and suitable buildings were added
to those already mentioned, for the use of the court and
its servants.

The city was richly adorned with monuments, traces
of which, in spite of their later wholesale destruction,
are clearly enough preserved in the heaps of debris.
The most important works of art were made of granite,
which the king obtained from the quarries of Syene.
The office of architect there was held by an Egyptian
named Bek, a son of ' Men, and of the lady Ei-n-an.'
Men, a son of Hor-amu, had already served in his office
under Amen-hotep III., as ' overseer of the givers of
life in the red mountain,' and as 'overseer of the
■sculptors from life for the grand monuments of the
king.'

The works of Bek (the third in this generation of
artists) for the new city of the Sun are most clearly
proved by the following inscription on a rock near
Aswan, in which Bek bears the title of

an overseer of the works at the red mountain, an artist and
teacher of the king himself, an overseer of the sculptors from life at
the grand monuments of the king for the temple of the sun's disk in
the city of Khu-aten.

The tombstone of the artist Bek was put up for sale
■some years ago in the open market-place at Cairo. It