Complex sentence: Votive offerings and personal names, many of which are theophoric, suggest that commoners felt some connection between themselves and their deities, but firm evidence of devotion to deities became visible only in the New Kingdom, reaching a peak late in that era.
Split into simpler sentences: Votive offerings and personal names, many of which are theophoric, suggest that commoners felt some connection between themselves and their gods. But firm evidence of devotion to deities became visible only in the New Kingdom, reaching a peak late in that era.