cakravartin
cakravartin (Skt.). A ‘Wheel-turner’, a monarch or emperor whose rule is unbounded as symbolized by the free movement of the wheels of his chariot throughout the land. Four grades of cakravartins are distinguished, the wheels of their chariots being iron, copper, silver, and gold respectively. The term was also used as an epithet for the
Buddha whose teachings also pervaded all lands. The cakravartin represents the Buddhist political ideal of the just ruler or universal monarch who brings peace and prosperity to his subjects, and various kings in history have been seen as embodying this ideal, notably
Aśoka. Representing political authority, the cakravartin may be thought of as the secular counterpart of a Buddha, and both are said to bear the 32 marks (
dvātriṃśadvara-lakṣaṇa) of the superman (
mahāpuruṣa) on their bodies.
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A model of Tell el-Amarna.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Tell el-Amarna, the short-lived capital built by the...connection with a temporary exhibition of Amarna art, commissioned a 1:400-scale model...field director of the EES expedition to Amarna, and built by a Clapham firm of architectural...
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Sun God's city no paradise.(Tell el-Amarna, Egypt)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication; 2/11/2008; 661 words
; ...bones of the young builders tell a painful, story. Archaeologists...studying what little remains of Amarna, a city that Pharaoh Akhenaton...studies of human bones found near Amarna indicate the builders were young...Kemp recently told BBC News. Amarna wasn't inhabited for long...
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Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Akhenaten's reign before the move to Amarna, is divided into two parts. We...miscellaneous royal records from Amarna itself. The selection includes...devoted to the private monuments from Tell el-Amarna, created by high officials of the...
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Ancient roads and GPS survey: modelling the Amarna Plain.(Method)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...construction of the city now known as Tell el-Amarna was begun in the fifth year of...remained (Kemp 1989). The city of Amarna therefore allows the archaeological...archaeological investigations at Tell el-Amarna between 1891 and 1892 (Petrie...
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Canaanite in the Amarna Tablets: A Linguistic Analysis of the Mixed Dialect used by Scribes from Canaan.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...years of research on the Amarna letters, starting in 1969...system used in the Canaanite Amarna letters, a system which...that the syllabic texts tell us more about the vowels...Order of Nominal Clauses in El-Amarna Letters," UF 27 (1995...
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Brilliant things for Akhenaten; the production of glass, vitreous materials and pottery at Amarna site O45.1.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2008; 606 words
; ...vitreous materials and pottery at Amarna site O45.1. Nicholson, Paul...Excavations memoir; 80 DT73 The Amarna Glass Project was born as an attempt...glass and vitreous materials at Tell el- Amarna; as such, this publication strives...
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Faraón los misterios de Egipto: un viaje virtual al interior de la momia del sacerdote Nesperennub, de 2.800 años de edad, es uno de los alicientes de Faraón, la exposición más espectacular de esta Navidad. Además, 120 piezas del Museo de El Cairo hablan de los misterios que rodean a los reyes de Egipto.
Magazine article from: Epoca; 12/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...XVIII Esta cabeza fue esculpida en Tell el-Amarna, el lugar donde Akenatn, el faran...del escriba, refleja claramente el estilo amarniense (llamado as porque Akenatn traslad la capital a Tell el-Amarna): el crneo de los personajes es...
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TALK CENTERS ON ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LIFE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/22/2009; 700 words
; ...Bioarchaeological Investigations at Tell el-Amarna: Unexpected Results from an Ancient...Sciences at UA Fort Smith, said that Tell el-Amarna was a capital city of Egypt during...Aten. "Wall inscriptions at Tell el-Amarna depict the typical opulence one...
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Digging for answers.(Akhenaten's death)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...beautiful paintings that tell us how these buildings...team dug mostly in Amarna's residential areas...English returned to Amarna. They worked there...modern times as Kom el-Nana--where he...Egyptian royal city at Amarna. These excavations...Other household items tell us about how ...
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The Wilbour Plaque at the Brooklyn Museum.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Luxor. Because the modern name of Akhetaten is Tell el-Amarna (referred to simply as Amarna), the years the royal family spent there have come to be called the Amarna Period. Wilbour identified the king on the plaque...
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Tell el Amarna
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Tell el Amarna or Tel el Amarna , ancient locality, Egypt, near the Nile and c.60 mi (100 km) N of Asyut. Ikhnaton's capital, Akhetaton, was in Tell el Amarna. About 400 tablets with inscriptions in Akkadian cuneiform were...
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Tell el-Amarna
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Tell el-Amarna the site of the ruins of the ancient Egyptian capital Akhetaten , on the east bank of the Nile. A series of cuneiform tablets known as the Amarna Letters was discovered on the site in 1887, providing valuable insight...
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Amarna Tell el-
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
Amarna Tell el- Place on the eastern bank of the Nile near the village of Haggi Qandil...Joshua of the biblical narratives. However, there are major problems which tell against any such identification. While some details in the letters fit...
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Tel el Amarna
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Tel el Amarna Egypt: see Tell el Amarna .
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Amarna
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Amarna see Tell el Amarna .
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