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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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