Hatshepsut.jpg
Summary
Description Hatshepsut.jpg |
English:
Detail of
Hatshepsut
,
Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt
, c. 1473-1458 B.C. Indurated limestone sculpture at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
,
New York City
.
Hatshepsut is depicted in the clothing of a male king though with a feminine form. Inscriptions on the statue call her "Daughter of
en:Re
" and "Lady of the Two Lands." Most of the statue's fragments were excavated in 1929, by the Museum's Egyptian Expedition, near Hatshepsut's funerary temple at
Deir el-Bahri
in
Thebes
. The lower part of the statue was acquired by Karl Richard Lepsius and taken to Berlin in 1845. The head, left forearm, and parts of the throne were excavated by the Museum, 1926-27 season and acquired in the division of finds. The Berlin fragment was acquired by the Museum in an exchange in 1929.
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Source | Cropped from digital photo by User:Postdlf |
Author | User:Postdlf |
Other versions | Uncropped original: File:Hatshepsut 1.jpg |
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