Museum Pieces - Head from an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut

Period:

New Kingdom

Dynasty:

Dynasty 18

Reign:

Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III

Date:

ca. 1473–1458 B.C.

Geography:

Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, 2 frags. in "Hatshepsut Hole"/ rest Senenmut Quarry, MMA 1922-23/ 1926-1928

Medium:

Limestone, paint

Dimensions:

H. 85 cm (33 7/16 in)

Credit Line:

Rogers Fund, 1931

Accession Number:

31.3.163

This head was once part of a mummiform figure of Hatshepsut that decorated a niche on the west wall of the upper terrace of her temple at Deir el-Bahri. The heads of three of these niche statues are in the Museum's collection. This one wears the tall white crown of Upper Egypt and probably was originally in one of the niches on the south side of the entrance to the sanctuary. The other two heads (31.3.157, 31.3.164) wear the combined "double crown" of Upper and Lower Egypt and probably were in niches north of the sanctuary entrance.

Museum and Photocredit: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art

Source: http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/100000729?rpp=20&pg=3&ft=Egypt&pos=44#fullscreen