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  • The afterlife of Hatshepsut’s statuary

  • Jun Yi Wong
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 99 / Issue 405 / June 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 June 2025, pp. 746-761
    Print publication:
    June 2025
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  • The statuary of Hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty, is believed to have been targeted for violent destruction by Thutmose III, her successor. Yet the condition of the statues recovered in the vicinity of Hatshepsut’s mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri varies considerably and many survive with their faces virtually intact. Through the examination of archival material from the original excavations, the author offers an alternative, more utilitarian, explanation of the treatment of these statues. Rather than outright hostility, much of the damage may instead derive from the ‘deactivation’ of the statues and their reuse as raw material.