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Although Hatshepsut is here protrayed as a male monarch, dressed in the costume and regalia of Egyptian kings, she does not wear the usual royal beard, so her face has a less masculine aspect. Her facial features have been systematically destroyed, evidence of the efforts of Tuthmosis III to erase Hatshepsut's name and representations from her royal monuments after her death. As with all Egyptian granite sculptures, only certain details of the statue were painted. Traces of pigment still remain on the headdress and broad collar.
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