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LL/67548
Harry Burton
1926-1927, Winter
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.

Gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The statuary was removed from the temple and destroyed on the command of her nephew and successor Thutmose III in ca. 1439 B.C.
 
LL/67548


 

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