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Small sphinx of Hatshepsut

Small sphinx of Hatshepsut





Artist : Anonymous

Model : Sphinx

Material : Painted limestone
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1931)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hatshepsut
Right
Ground Floor - Section 12
Item 21 on 21
Ancient Egypt
Sculpture

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


Description   

Only few fragments of this sculpture have been preserved. They are presently mounted in a cast of a virtually complete mate in Cairo. The two small statues evidently formed a pair and may have been positioned on the upper newel posts of the lower ramp of Hatshepsut's temple. A uncommon feature of these sphinxes is that only the face, adorned by the royal beard and uraeus, is human. It is framed by a lion's mane and ears. Traces of paint indicate that the body was painted a tawny yellow and the mane and beard blue.
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