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Echnaton Tutanchamun: Daten, Fakten, Literatur, 5th edition. By Hermann Alexander Schlögl. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013. Pp. xiv + 137. euro19 (paper).
This study does not purport to be a new analysis of Akhenaton and Tutanchamun. Rather, it is a series of short chapters, each followed by a detailed bibliography that covers what immediately precedes. However, this approach has resulted in a non-historical presentation, by which I mean that all and sundry is presented as providing supports to Schlögl's analyses and nothing is integrated. In many ways the work resembles the effective and successful completion of the late eighteenth century's historical writing in which details are abundant-and even some footnotes included-but whose works ended up being empirically descriptive rather than analytical.
For example, I see no reason to include Weigall's now antiquated publications as well as those of Fletcher. But if they are adduced, then one must present a careful evaluation of their importance before listing them. To take another case in point: Cyril Aldred's epoch-making Tiranti series of art works, three volumes in all, are now considerably dated. Surely, the newer works, more exacting in theme as well as in art historical analysis, should be stressed. If we incorporate almost all past works on this phase of the Amarna...