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The nature of Hatshepsut's accession to the thone of Egypt required her symbolic portrayal as a male monarch, as in this statue, in which she is depicted wearing the royal nemes headdress and offering two nw jars. As a result of the later prosciption of her memory by Tuthmosis III, the uraeus serpent on her headdress was hacked off, her eyes were picked out, and the entire sculpture was subsequently smashed to pieces. Like all the statues in this room, this figure has been reassembled from fragments discovered in various dumps near Hatshepsut's funerary temple at Deir el Bahri.
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