Statue of Seated Hatshepsut
by Ancient Egyptian (Unknown), -1479
Artwork Details
Details
- Year
- -1479
- Medium
- Indurated limestone, paint
- Size
- 195 cm (76.8 in) tall
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Ancient Egyptian This Seated Statue of Hatshepsut shows the female pharaoh enthroned in the traditional pose of kingship. Carved from indurated limestone around 1479-1458 BCE, traces of original paint survive. She wears the nemes headdress and false beard of pharaonic authority.
Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari contained over 100 statues of the pharaoh. Her successor Thutmose III destroyed most of them, possibly to erase a woman's claim to the throne. The Metropolitan Museum's excavations recovered many fragments, which conservators reassembled.
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About Statue of Seated Hatshepsut
The false beard was a symbol of pharaonic power, not gender. By wearing it, Hatshepsut claimed full royal authority. Many of her statues show her with masculine attributes.
After her death, Thutmose III ordered her images destroyed. Scholars debate whether this was personal hatred or an attempt to regularize the succession by erasing a female pharaoh.
Ancient Egyptian carved from indurated limestone around 1479-1458 BCE, traces of original paint survive. The work is executed in indurated limestone, paint.
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