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title: Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/
description: 'A painted, polished limestone statue of Hatshepsut seated as king: the male royal kilt, bull''s tail and nemes headcloth, with small breasts and feminine…'
section: Collection
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# Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri

A painted, polished limestone statue of Hatshepsut seated as king: the male royal kilt, bull's tail and nemes headcloth, with small breasts and feminine titles inscribed on the throne, and the Nine Bows incised under the feet. It stood in her temple at Deir el-Bahri until it was smashed and thrown into a nearby pit; the Metropolitan Museum's excavators rejoined the pieces in the 1920s.

## Text on the object

Original (Egyptian (hieroglyphic)) · checked against a source transcription

```
[Hieroglyphic inscriptions run down the front of the throne, one along each leg; they are not transcribed in the original script in this entry.]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Along the proper left leg: "The Perfect Goddess, Lady of the Two Lands, Maatkare, beloved of Amun-Re, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands, may she live forever!" Along the right: "The bodily daughter of Re, Khenemet-Amun-Hatshepsut, beloved of Amun-Re, King of the Gods, may she live forever!"
```

Translation as given in the Met catalogue entry for this statue (Roehrig, Dreyfus and Keller eds., 2005, cat. 96). It is a published translation, not one made from the image; the hieroglyphs were not read here.

[← Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) [Glazed-brick panel with a striding lion, from Babylon (reign of Nebuchadnezzar II) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ishtar-gate-panel-striding-lion-nebuchadnezzar-ii-604bce/)

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