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dxn. xviii. A HYMN TO THE SUN'S DISK 221
I am a servant of the divine benefactor (the king); I accompany
him to all places where he loves to stay. I am a companion at his
feet. For he raised me to greatness when I was yet a child, till
[the day of my] honours in good fortune. The servant of the prince
rejoices, and is in a festive disposition every day.
The queen was deeply penetrated with the new
faith, which appeared to contemporaries in the light of
an open heresy. In an old hymn still extant she thus
addresses the rising sun :—
Thou disk of the Sun, thou living god ! there is none other
beside thee ! Thou givest health to the eye through thy beams,
Creator of all beings. Thou goest up on the eastern horizon of
heaven, to dispense life to all which thou hast created ; to man,
four-footed beasts, birds, and all manner of creeping things on the
earth, where they live. Thus they behold thee, and they go to
sleep when thou settest.
Grant to thy son, who loves thee, life in truth, to the lord of the
land, Khu-n-aten, that he may live united with thee in eternity.
As for her, his wife, the queen Nefer-it-Thi—may she live for
evermore and eternally by his side, well pleasing to thee : she
admires what thou hast created day by day.
He (the king) rejoices at the sight of thy benefits. Grant him
a long existence as king of the land.
The mother also of the king, the widow of Amen-
hotep III., honoured the city and the temple of the
Sun by a visit. She arrived at Khu-aten with a great
retinue. The king, in company with his wife, himself
conducted her into the new temple. The inscription
explains the picture that remains to us of this scene in
the following terms:—' Introduction of the queen-
mother Thi to behold her sun-shadow.'
According to the still extant wall-pictures in the
sepulchral chambers of the hiUs behind the town,
Khu-n-aten enjoyed a very happy family life. Sur-
rounded by his daughters and wife, who often, from a
high balcony, threw down all kinds of presents to the
crowd which stood below, the mother holding on her
lap the little Ankh-nes-aten, he reached a state of the
I am a servant of the divine benefactor (the king); I accompany
him to all places where he loves to stay. I am a companion at his
feet. For he raised me to greatness when I was yet a child, till
[the day of my] honours in good fortune. The servant of the prince
rejoices, and is in a festive disposition every day.
The queen was deeply penetrated with the new
faith, which appeared to contemporaries in the light of
an open heresy. In an old hymn still extant she thus
addresses the rising sun :—
Thou disk of the Sun, thou living god ! there is none other
beside thee ! Thou givest health to the eye through thy beams,
Creator of all beings. Thou goest up on the eastern horizon of
heaven, to dispense life to all which thou hast created ; to man,
four-footed beasts, birds, and all manner of creeping things on the
earth, where they live. Thus they behold thee, and they go to
sleep when thou settest.
Grant to thy son, who loves thee, life in truth, to the lord of the
land, Khu-n-aten, that he may live united with thee in eternity.
As for her, his wife, the queen Nefer-it-Thi—may she live for
evermore and eternally by his side, well pleasing to thee : she
admires what thou hast created day by day.
He (the king) rejoices at the sight of thy benefits. Grant him
a long existence as king of the land.
The mother also of the king, the widow of Amen-
hotep III., honoured the city and the temple of the
Sun by a visit. She arrived at Khu-aten with a great
retinue. The king, in company with his wife, himself
conducted her into the new temple. The inscription
explains the picture that remains to us of this scene in
the following terms:—' Introduction of the queen-
mother Thi to behold her sun-shadow.'
According to the still extant wall-pictures in the
sepulchral chambers of the hiUs behind the town,
Khu-n-aten enjoyed a very happy family life. Sur-
rounded by his daughters and wife, who often, from a
high balcony, threw down all kinds of presents to the
crowd which stood below, the mother holding on her
lap the little Ankh-nes-aten, he reached a state of the