Statue
royal statue
49.0cm
195.0cm
114.0cm
indurated limestone
-
Body was found by Karl Richard Lepsius in 1845 and transported to Berlin (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin ÄM 2306) in 1845; the upper parts found by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in season 1926-1927 and acquired in the division of finds in 1929; the Berlin fragment was acquired by exchange in 1929.
Museum object
Archives:
Lepsius MSS 45 [lower]
Nestor l’Hôte MSS 20396, 83
MMA photos M.9.C.199–M.9.C.208, M.10.C.71, M.10.C.135
Princeton University Art Museum photo x1971-322
Lepsius MSS 45 [lower]
Nestor l’Hôte MSS 20396, 83
MMA photos M.9.C.199–M.9.C.208, M.10.C.71, M.10.C.135
Princeton University Art Museum photo x1971-322
Bibliography:
- Aldred, Cyril, New Kingdom Art in Ancient Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty 1570 to 1320 B.C., 1st ed., London 1951, Pl(s). 21
- Aldred, Cyril, New Kingdom Art in Ancient Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty 1570 to 1320 B.C., 2nd ed., London 1961, 48, Pl(s). 22
- Arnold, Dorothea, The Destruction of the Statues of Hatshepsut from Deir el-Bahari, in: Dreyfus, Renée, Keller, Cathleen A., Roehrig, Catharine H., Hatshepsut. From Queen to Pharaoh, New Haven, London 2005, 275 [n. 3]
- Dorman, Peter F., Harper, Prudence Oliver, Pittman, Holly, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, Egypt and the Ancient Near East, New York 1987, 44–46, Pl(s). 28
- Ausführliches Verzeichnis der ägyptischen Altertürmer und Gipsabgüsse, Berlin 1899, 112
- Drioton, Étienne, du Bourguet, Pierre, Les pharaons à la conquête de l’art, 1965, Pl(s). 65
- Friedman, Martin L., A New Tuthmoside Head at the Brooklyn Museum, The Brooklyn Museum Bulletin XIX.2, 1958, 2, Fig(s). 3
- Goldstein, Sidney M., A Unique Royal Head, Journal of Glass Studies 21, 1979, 13, Fig(s). 5
- Grimm, Alfred, Schoske, Sylvia, Hatschepsut KönigIN Ägyptens, Schriften der Ägyptischen Sammlung 8, München 1999, Fig(s). 34, 37
- Hamann, Richard, Ägyptische Kunst. Wesen und Geschichte, Berlin 1944, Fig(s). 220
- Dreyfus, Renée, Keller, Cathleen A., Roehrig, Catharine H., Hatshepsut. From Queen to Pharaoh, New Haven, London 2005, 171–173 [96]
- Hayes, William C., The Scepter of Egypt: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, The Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom, Cambridge, Mass. 1959, 97–99
- Kaczor, Teresa, Historia badań i konserwacji architektury w świątyni Hatszepsut w Deir el-Bahari / Hatshepsut’s Temple in Deir el-Bahari – history of research and restoration, in: Kościuk, Jacek, Non Solum Villæ. Księga jubileuszowa ofiarowana Profesorowi Stanisławowi Medekszy, Wrocław 2010, 159, Fig(s). 5 [left]
- Lange, Kurt, Hirmer, Max, Aegypten. Architektur, Plastik, Malerei in drei Jahrtausenden, München 1955, Pl(s). 127
- Lange, Kurt, Hirmer, Max, Aegypten. Architektur, Plastik, Malerei in drei Jahrtausenden, München 1957, Pl(s). 127
- Lange, Kurt, Hirmer, Max, Aegypten. Architektur, Plastik, Malerei in drei Jahrtausenden, München 1967, Pl(s). 133
- Lepsius, Carl Richard, Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien III, Genève 1972, Pl(s). 25d-g
- Lepsius, Carl Richard, Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien III. Text, Leipzig 1900, 102
- Müller, Hans Wolfgang, Ein ägyptischer Königskopf des 15.Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Ein Beitrag zur Stilentwicklung der Plastik der 18. Dynastie, Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 3 ser. III/IV, 1952/1953, 76 (head), Fig(s). 7, 8
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 373 [A], 421 [lower part found by R. Lepsius]
- Pirenne, Jacques, Histoire de la civilisation de l’Égypte ancienne – Deuxième cycle: de la fin de l’Ancien Empire à la fin du Nouvel Empire, Neuchâtel 1962, Pl(s). 38
- Pritchard, James B., The Ancient Near East in Pictures, relating to the Old Testament, Princeton 1955, Fig(s). 388 (upper part)
- Roeder, Günther, Aegyptische Inschriften aus den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. Zweiter Band. Inschriften des Neuen Reichs, Indizes zum Band 1 und 2, Leipzig 1924, 1 (text on throne)
- Roehrig, Catharine H., Life along the Nile: Three Egyptians of Ancient Thebes, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 60.1, 2002, Fig(s). 31 (upper part)
- Smith, W. Stevenson, The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt, Pelican History of Art 14, Harmondsworth 1958, 135, Pl(s). 95 [a, b]
- Tefnin, Roland, La statuaire d’Hatshepsout. Portrait royal et politique sous la 18e dynastie, Monumenta Aegyptiaca 4, Bruxelles 1979, 11–16, 20–30, 186, Pl(s). IIIb-c, IV, V, Fig(s). 1–3, 6, 8
- Vandier, Jacques, Manuel d’archéologie égyptienne, Tome III. Les grandes époques. La statuaire, Paris 1958, Pl(s). XCVII.6 (restored head)
- Wenig, Steffen, Die Frau im Alten Ägypten, Leipzig 1967, Pl(s). 34
- Werbrouck, Marcelle, Le temple d’Hatshepsout à Deir el-Bahari, Bruxelles 1949, Pl(s). XXIX
- Wilson, John A., The Burden of Egypt. An Interpretation of Ancient Egyptian Culture, Chicago 1951, 177, Fig(s). 18a
- Winlock, Herbert Eustis, The Egyptian Expedition 1928-1929: The Museum’s Excavations at Thebes, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 24.11, 1929, 4–12, Fig(s). 4–6 (head)
- Winlock, Herbert Eustis, The Museum’s Excavations at Thebes, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 25.12, 1930, 5–10, 16–17, Fig(s). 3–4 (whole statue), 15a-b (restored head)
- Winlock, Herbert Eustis, Excavations at Deir el-Bahri 1911-1931, New York 1942, 188, Pl(s). 58
- Woldering, Irmgard, Götter und Pharaonen. Die Kultur Ägyptens im Wandel der Geschichte, München [1967], 215 [cat. no. 3]
- Wolf, Walther, Die Kunst Aegyptens. Gestalt und Geschichte, Stuttgart 1957, Fig(s). 371