Statue
royal statue
120.3 cm
granite
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Found by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Senenmut Quarry and in the temple courtyards in seasons 1926-1928; acquired by the museum in the division of finds in 1931.
Museum object
Archive photos:
MMA photos M.8.C.126–M.8.C.127, M.8.C.129, M.11.C.109, M.11.C.275–M.11.C.276, M.11.C.280
Bibliography:
- Arnold, Dorothea, The Destruction of the Statues of Hatshepsut from Deir el-Bahari, in: Roehrig, Catharine H., Keller, Cathleen A., 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, 93–94
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 371
- Tefnin, Roland, La statuaire d’Hatshepsout. Portrait royal et politique sous la 18e dynastie, Monumenta Aegyptiaca 4, Bruxelles 1979, 114–115
- Connor, Simon, Ancient Egyptian Statues. Their Many lives and deaths, Cairo, New York 2022, 141