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Harry Burton
Smashed statuary of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut as discovered by Metropolitan Museum of Art excavators in an ancient quarry northeast of her temple at Deir el-Bahri, Thebes, Luxor.
1926-1927, Winter
Gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art
LL/67548
The statuary was removed from the temple and destroyed on the command of her nephew and successor Thutmose III in ca. 1439 B.C.
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