Akhenaten & the 326290 Akhenaten Asteroid - San Jose, CA - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

The placard accompanying this sculpture indicates that it is replica of an original held Luxor Museum in Egypt. This replica is displayed on the 2nd floor of Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in the same room as another replica of Akenaten. See WMN3Y5.
The placard informs us that at the beginning of Akhenaten's religious revolution, he was depicted with "highly stylized features, such as an elongated head, full hips and a slender torso.... Later the art takes on a more naturalistic quality and Akhenaten appears to be more realistic images of himself and his family."
This piece just depicts his face which has mostly a blank appearance.

Wikipedia (visit link) adds:

"Akhenaten ... known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV (sometimes given its Greek form, Amenophis IV, and meaning Amun is Satisfied), was a pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in 1336 BC or 1334 BC. He is especially noted for abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism and introducing worship centered on the Aten, which is sometimes described as monotheistic or henotheistic. An early inscription likens the Aten to the sun as compared to stars, and later official language avoids calling the Aten a god, giving the solar deity a status above mere gods.

Akhenaten tried to bring about a departure from traditional religion, yet in the end it would not be accepted. After his death, traditional religious practice was gradually restored, and when some dozen years later rulers without clear rights of succession from the Eighteenth Dynasty founded a new dynasty, they discredited Akhenaten and his immediate successors, referring to Akhenaten himself as "the enemy" in archival records."

As for the asteroid, Wikipedia does not have an article for it, but does list 326290 Akhenaten with all the other "Venus-crossing minor planets". See (visit link)

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