Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh

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Название: Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh

Автор: Roehrig, Catharine H., ed., with Renée Dreyfus and Cathleen A. Keller

Год: 2005

Издательство: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Формат: PDF

Размер: 62 Mb

Страниц: 340

Язык: Английский

Cleopatra may be the most famous woman of ancient Egypt, but far more significant was Hatshepsut, a female pharaoh who reigned for nearly twenty years in the fifteenth century B.C., during the early period of the New Kingdom. After acting as regent for her young nephew-stepson Thutmose III, Hatshepsut assumed the title of king and exercised the full powers of the throne as senior co-ruler with Thutmose. In accordance with Egyptian ideology and representational tradition, she was often depicted as a male king. Hatshepsut's reign, fully accepted by a flourishing Egypt, introduced a period of immense artistic creativity. Some twenty years after her death, however, monuments bearing her image were ruthlessly defaced, and her name was erased from historical accounts.