Statue
royal statue
82.6cm
295.9cm
149.9cm
granite
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Found by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Senenmut Quarry and in the Mentuhotep II Causeway in season 1927-1928; acquired by the museum in the division of finds in 1930.
Museum object
Archive photos:
MMA photos M.8.C.125, M.9.C.55, M.9.C.125–M.9.C.127, M.9.C.137–M.9.C.140, M.9.C.181–M.9.C.185, M.11.C.112, M.11.C.125, M.11.C.289–M.11.C.290
Bibliography:
- Arnold, Dorothea, The Destruction of the Statues of Hatshepsut from Deir el-Bahari, in: Keller, Cathleen A., Roehrig, Catharine H., Dreyfus, Renée, Hatshepsut. From Queen to Pharaoh, New Haven, London 2005, 274 [n. 2]
- 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, Fig(s). 53 [right]
- Tefnin, Roland, La statuaire d’Hatshepsout. Portrait royal et politique sous la 18e dynastie, Monumenta Aegyptiaca 4, Bruxelles 1979, 72–73, 75, Pl(s). XXI
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 372
- Vandier, Jacques, Manuel d’archéologie égyptienne, Tome III. Les grandes époques. La statuaire, Paris 1958, 301