Aten

Summary

Aten is an Ancient Egyptian deity^[1]. He ranks in the top 10% of ancient_egyptian_deity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,089 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Aten's religion is recorded as atenism^[3].
• Aten's image is recorded as Aten.svg^[4].
• Aten is recorded as male^[5].
• Aten's instance of is recorded as Ancient Egyptian deity^[6].
• Aten's instance of is recorded as King of the Gods^[7].
• Aten's instance of is recorded as solar deity^[8].
• Aten's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 121147266648735481102^[9].
• Aten's GND ID is recorded as 11865084X^[10].
• Aten's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as no2016111061^[11].
• Aten's IdRef ID is recorded as 03109290X^[12].
• Aten's part of is recorded as Egyptian mythology^[13].
• Aten's Commons category is recorded as Aten^[14].
• Aten's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0crwt^[15].
• Aten's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Aton^[16].
• Aten's British Museum person or institution ID is recorded as 52909^[17].
• Aten's CERL Thesaurus ID is recorded as cnp00578818^[18].
• Aten's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1839549^[19].
• Aten's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as aton^[20].
• Aten's Quora topic ID is recorded as Iten^[21].
• Aten's PACTOLS thesaurus ID is recorded as pcrte3TLBB177M^[22].
• Aten's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[23].
• Aten's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i86607^[24].
• Aten's Getty Iconography Authority ID is recorded as 901001334^[25].
• Aten's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3872172^[26].
• Aten's name in hiero markup is recorded as i-t:N35-ra^[27].

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Personal Life

Aten's religion is recorded as atenism^[3].

Works and Contributions

Things named for Aten include Amarna Period^[28], a historical period^[29], in Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt^[30] and 2062 he^[31], an asteroid^[32].

Why It Matters

Aten ranks in the top 10% of ancient_egyptian_deity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,089 views/month).^[2] He has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[33] He is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[34]

Entities named for him include Amarna Period^[28], a historical period^[29], in Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt^[30] and 2062 he^[31], an asteroid^[32].