Editing Amarna (section)

==Name==
The name ''Amarna'' comes from the Beni Amran tribe that lived in the region{{when|date=March 2024}} and founded a few settlements. The ancient Egyptian name means "[[Akhet (hieroglyph)|the horizon]] of the [[Aten]]".<ref name="davidp125">David (1998), p. 125</ref>

English Egyptologist Sir [[John Gardner Wilkinson]] visited Amarna twice in the 1820s and identified it as '''Alabastron''',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/amarna/index.html |publisher=University College London |title=Digital Egypt for Universities: Amarna |access-date=26 July 2016}}</ref> following the sometimes contradictory descriptions of Roman-era authors [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] (''On Stones'') and [[Ptolemy]] (''[[Geography (Ptolemy)|Geography]]''),<ref name="MatHyer">{{cite book |title=Materia hieroglyphica |author=Sir John Gardner Wilkinson |year=1828 |location=Malta |publisher=privately printed |page=22 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWgGAAAAQAAJ&q=Amarna+%22alabastron%22&pg=RA1-PA22 |access-date=26 July 2016}}</ref><ref name="MatInd">{{cite book |title=Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries |author1=Alfred Lucas |author-link=Alfred Lucas (chemist) |author2=John Richard Harris |year=2011 |edition=reprint of 4th edition (1962), revised from first (1926) |location=Mineola, NY |publisher=Dover Publications |page=60 |isbn=978-0-486-40446-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8dIoAwAAQBAJ&q=Amarna+%22alabastron%22&pg=PA60 |access-date=26 July 2016 }}</ref> although he was not sure about the identification and suggested [[Nekhen|Kom el-Ahmar]] as an alternative location.<ref name="ModEg">{{cite book |title=Modern Egypt and Thebes: being a description of Egypt; including the information required for travellers in that country |volume=II |year=1843 |location=London |publisher=John Murray |pages=43–44 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fLsMAAAAIAAJ&q=Amarna+%22alabastron%22&pg=PA44 |access-date=26 July 2016}}</ref>