Standing Statue of Queen Hatshepsut
Introduction:
1-
When someone looks to this statue
he will say that it belongs to a king for having a male body and he is wearing
the royal nemes headdress, false beard and the kilt of the kings.
2-
But actually the statue belongs to
Queen Hatshepsut who wanted to assure that she was not less than men and she
was having the same abilities of the mighty kings in ruling Egypt.
The
Statue:
3-
Like the kings, the statue
represents queen Hatshepsut while stepping her left leg forward as if she was
following her heart in all of her actions.
4-
On the frontal part of the nemes
headdress, there is the cobra goddess Wadjet sign of the royal power and
protection.
5-
The queen is placing her hands upon
her kilt as if paying respect to god Amun while making prayers.
6-
The kilt is ornamented with two
cobras to assure the kingship of Hatshepsut over the two lands of Egypt.
7-
The queen is shown with calm facial
features clearly shown in her light smile. She is represented in full round
face, long eye brows, wide eyes with the cosmetic line of kohl, and the fine
smile on the mouth. But the nose is being destroyed. Probably it was destroyed
by the followers of Thutmose III who disliked her.
8-
On the belt of the kilt there is
inscription having the name of the queen MAat-kA-Ra or Justice is the
Ka (Companion) of Re.
-
The inscription is :
NTr nfr Nb irt The
good god, Lord of action.
-
It is noticed that the queen gave herself the epithet Nb or lord not the
feminine epithet Nbt or Lady.
MAat-kA-Ra
or Justice is the Ka (Companion) of Re
Di anx Dt : give life
forever
Story of Hatshepsut and her ascension over
the throne
((Note
this story can be told to the tourists while talking about the head of the
queen outside the hall)) :
9-
For the story of Hatshepsut, she
was the daughter of Thutmose I the great king who founded an Egyptian empire in
western Asia and Nubia. Her mother was a principal royal wife [2].
10- After
the death of her father Thutmose I, she married her half-brother named
Thutmose II to give him the right for the throne because he was a son of a
secondary wife [3].
11- During
six years of marriage Hatshepsut got a daughter named Neferure and in the same
time her husband Thutmose II got a son called Thutmose III from a secondary
wife [4].
12- After
the death of Thutmose II, his son Thutmose III ascended the throne but since he
was a child he was placed under the regency of queen Hatshepsut. Then
Hatshepsut dominated the throne of Egypt.
13- Hatshepsut
in order to possess the right for the throne she invented a story with the help
of the priests. She claimed that she was the divine daughter of god Amun.
According to the story Amun took the form of her father Thutmose I and entered
the room of her mother queen Ahmos and made her pregnant of his divine daughter
Hatshepsut who would inherit the throne of Egypt [5].
14- Therefore
Hatshepsut used to call herself king not a queen and in the texts she was
described as lord of two lands not lady of the two lands.
[1]
The statueis made out of pink granite. It was found in the mortuary temple of
the queen at Deir Al-Bahari.
[2]
The name of the mother of Hatshepsut was Ahmose.
[3]
The secondary wife of Thutmose I and the mother of Thutmose II was named Mutnefert.
[4]
The secondary wife of Thutmose II and the mother of Thutmose III was named Isis.
There is a statue for her in the hall of the New Kingdom.
[5]
The divine birth of Hatshepsut is displayed on the mortuary temple of the queen
at Deit Al- Bahari.
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