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for she is wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt and in the other she has the Nemes headdress.
Ancient Egyptian
The one with the white crown (center, tall conical headpiece) is:
Large statue of kneeling Hatshepsut
Dynasty 18, reign of Hatshepsut (1478-1458 BC)
Red granite. 112 1/4 x 30 x 57 1/2 inches
As she now looks in 2008...
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(From info card - 2008) "This large kneeling statue was once part of a group of similar figures aligned on the right-hand (northern) sise of the processional way, most probably along the axist of the temple's second court. while statues south of the processional way wore the white (Upper Egyptian) crown, the nemes headdress is substituted in these images for the red crown of Lower Egypt, doubtless because the antenna-like top of that crown was difficult to render in stone. "The kneeling pose was assumed by Egyptian kings when they came into close proximity with a deity, for instance, when the pharoah opened the shrine in which the god's image resided. To perpetuate such encounters, small images of kneeling pharoahs were occasionally placed beside the processional barque shrines of deities. Hatshepsut's kneeling images are unique in being of such large size." |
Still 'sitting pretty' in 2008
