Amarna is a city that is separated. The separation occurs within the title of nobility or one of a commoner. This was the urban plan, or the central idea of the design of the city. Since this was a capital city in the Egyptian empire, the nobles cannot be living at the same level or area as the people they rule over. That would be a disgrace! The city designers too this ideal and made all their designs for the city around that image. When any large metropolitan area is created, the organization of necessary buildings and spaces are always taken into consideration. This urban plan has many different terms and criteria it must define and fit. One such of these terms is coordination of buildings and space. This refers to the general shape and
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Made quickly as possible, the mud and brick construction worked rather well for a hasty construction. The Great Temple of Aten was made to follow a new cult of Aten, the Sun disk, a small division from Ra the sun god. The temple was located right along the wall separating the public from the royal family. This was done to minimize travel from the palace to the most visited place in the city. There is also a small Aten palace which was used for lesser religious practices and more daily, without the royal kind of …show more content…
Because Amarna was a capital, it had to have both the political and religious components that all past capitals did have. That is 4000 years of capital city plans to look at. Many of the temples of the time did look the same. A large rectangular wall surrounds much smaller buildings inside. Each temple is looks like this because many of them used the area inside to worship other gods and goddesses. The Great Temple of Aten is only home to one god, which was a new concept at the time for the empire. Another connection between Amarna and other cities is the separation of the nobility and the common folk of the area. Most were done with a large wall and gate complex just as Amarna, so this divide was not a new concept either. One pattern that was interesting was the orientation of the temples where done to represent the deity it was for. The Great Temple of Aten was orientated in an East to West direction which is also how the sun, or sun disk goes in the sky. Amarna’s urban plan was just following the thousands of years of
Made quickly as possible, the mud and brick construction worked rather well for a hasty construction. The Great Temple of Aten was made to follow a new cult of Aten, the Sun disk, a small division from Ra the sun god. The temple was located right along the wall separating the public from the royal family. This was done to minimize travel from the palace to the most visited place in the city. There is also a small Aten palace which was used for lesser religious practices and more daily, without the royal kind of …show more content…
Because Amarna was a capital, it had to have both the political and religious components that all past capitals did have. That is 4000 years of capital city plans to look at. Many of the temples of the time did look the same. A large rectangular wall surrounds much smaller buildings inside. Each temple is looks like this because many of them used the area inside to worship other gods and goddesses. The Great Temple of Aten is only home to one god, which was a new concept at the time for the empire. Another connection between Amarna and other cities is the separation of the nobility and the common folk of the area. Most were done with a large wall and gate complex just as Amarna, so this divide was not a new concept either. One pattern that was interesting was the orientation of the temples where done to represent the deity it was for. The Great Temple of Aten was orientated in an East to West direction which is also how the sun, or sun disk goes in the sky. Amarna’s urban plan was just following the thousands of years of