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The so-called "Doctrinal name" of the Aten used here is still in its first form. The stela's dating to the end of the first half of
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argued that the bust is most likely authentic, while this stela is not. As a basis for his view, Krauss claimed, among other things, that the word
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commented favourably, "The relief is a pastiche, a fraudulently manufactured stylistic mishmash"
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in 1912. When the archaeological finds from Tell-el Amarna were
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Description of the altar with picture on globalegyptianmuseum
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