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This lifesize statue shows Hatshepsut in the ceremonial attire of an Egyptian pharaoh, traditionally a man's role. In spite of the masculine dress, the statue has a distintly feminine air unlike the colossal granite statues in this gallery which also represent Hatshepsut as pharaoh. Most of the statue's fragments were excavared by the Museum's Egyptian Expedition in 1929 near Hatshepsut's funerary temple at Deir el Bahri. The torso, discovered in 1845 and taken to Berlin, was acquired by exchange in 1930. As on the black granite statue to the left, the inscriptions accord the god Amun the particular epithets that associate him with the temple of Karnak.
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