Hatshepsut Osiride Colossus
تمثال حتشبسوت الأوزيري العملاق
18th Dynasty · New Kingdom · c. 1473–1458 BCE
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Details
In Egypt- Where to see it
- Distributed: Grand Egyptian Museum (Giza) · Egyptian Museum (Cairo) · Metropolitan Museum (New York) · Deir el-Bahari (in situ fragments)
- Found at
- Deir el-Bahari
- Type
- statue
- Material
- painted limestone
About this object
The Osiride colossi from the upper court of Hatshepsut's mortuary temple — the female pharaoh sculpted as the god Osiris, in male royal regalia, in painted limestone.
Current location
Distributed: Grand Egyptian Museum (Giza) · Egyptian Museum (Cairo) · Metropolitan Museum (New York) · Deir el-Bahari (in situ fragments)
In the site
Grand Egyptian Museum, Hatshepsut hall (additional examples at Cairo, the Met, and in situ at Deir el-Bahari)
Materials
painted limestone, red and yellow ochre pigment, carbon black, Egyptian blue
Dimensions
Life-size to colossal · upper court figures up to ~5 m tall
Provenance
Carved for the upper court colonnade of Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari (c. 1473–1458 BCE). Many were smashed by Thutmose III after Hatshepsut's death and the fragments dumped in a pit south-east of the temple. Reassembled by Herbert Winlock and the Metropolitan Museum expedition between 1922 and 1931.
Depicts
Sourcing
Phase 0 hand-curated — pending Egyptologist review
Citations
- · Winlock, H.E. (1942). Excavations at Deir el Bahri 1911–1931.
- · Roehrig, C. (2005). Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- · Tefnin, R. (1979). La statuaire d'Hatchepsout.
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