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Head of a Statue of Queen Hatshepsut
JE 56259 A - 56262 Cairo Antiquities Museum
Materials: Painted
Limestone
Size: Height 61 sm
Location: Deir el-Bahri, Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut
Excavation: Metropolitan Museum of Art Excavations of
1926
Period: 18th Dynasty, Reign of Queen Hatshepsut
(1473-1458 BC)
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We believe that this head would have at one time adorned
a colossal statue of Hatshepsut
that perhaps crowned one of the Osirian pillars that
decorated the portico of the third terrace of the queen's
temple at Deir
el-Bahri. Of course, this statue is well kwon
because, though Hatshepsut was female, she nevertheless
wears the traditional beard.
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Photographer: Unknown
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