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Five small kneeling statues
Five small kneeling statues
Artist : Anonymous


Material : Red granite
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1931)
XVIIIème dynastie
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hatshepsut
Right - Ground Floor - Section 12
Item 9 on 21
Ancient Egypt
Sculpture (Statue)

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




Description   

These small statues represent Hatshepsut in the guise of a male king, wearing the baglike khat headdress and holding on her thights a lustration vessel ornamented in front with hieroglyph for stability. Eight small kneeling statues were recovered from Deir el Bahri. The content and orientation of the inscriptions on their back suggest that a set of at least tewlve such figures existed originally, perhaps arranged on the upper terrace at Hatshepsut's temple.
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