Illustrative model — an approximation, not a scan of the original object.
c. 1479 – 1458 BCE
Seated Statue of Hatshepsut
Eighteenth Dynasty.
- Material
- Indurated limestone with paint
- Findspot
- Deir el-Bahari, Thebes
- Discovery
- Its fragments were recovered during the Metropolitan Museum’s excavations at Deir el-Bahari in 1926–28; the museum acquired it in 1929.
- Held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Inventory number
- 29.3.2
Hatshepsut sits with her hands flat on her knees, wearing the royal nemes headcloth and the king’s kilt, with delicate, feminine features.
The statue was broken in antiquity and later reassembled from many fragments excavators found in quarries near her temple.
Certainty: Established
This statue’s fragments were found at Deir el-Bahari among statues of Hatshepsut that had been broken and discarded after her death.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York “Seated Statue of Hatshepsut, 29.3.2” metmuseum.org
Certainty: Uncertain
Sources give the statue’s height as between about 195 and 213 cm, depending on measurement and restoration.
Scholarly note: The museum has restored it three times: in the 1930s, in 1979 and in 1993.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York “Seated Statue of Hatshepsut, 29.3.2” metmuseum.org