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Standing statue of Hatshepsut
Standing statue of Hatshepsut
Artist : Anonymous


Material : Red granite
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1928)
XVIIIème dynastie
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hatshepsut
Right - Ground Floor - Section 12
Item 11 on 21
Ancient Egypt
Sculpture (Statue)

Area related
Deir el-Bahari (Egypte)
Site related :
The mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut




Description   

This sculpture is one of two identical standing figures of Hatshepsut recovered from the same dump near her temple at Deir el Bahri. The other figure is in Cairo. Both statues portray Hatshepsut clad in her regalia of Egyptian pharaohs : the nemes heddress, ceremonial beard, and stiffly protruding linen kilt. The complementary orientation of their inscriptions indicates that the two statues were clearly intended as pendants to each other, perhaps on either side of the central processional route near one of the portals on the upper terrace of the temple.
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