Senenmut [Egyptian architect, engineer, active ca. 1489-1469 BCE] Hatshepsut [Egyptian pharaoh and patron, 1479-1458 BCE]

Symmetry Faces 1490 1490 BCE This mortuary temple is divided into three terraces, each of which has a northern and southern portico (or colonnade). The temple is set within a natural bay in the limestone cliffs of the western mountains and located on the western bank of the Nile (or in Western Thebes, the great capital of Egypt during the New Kingdom). The terraces had, in antiquity, gardens of frankincense trees and other rare plantings brought from Punt. Reliefs on the walls illustrate a naval expedition to Punt, an exotic place, probably what is now Ethiopia or northern Somalia. This temple was built by Queen Hatshepsut, stepmother of pharaoh Thutmose III, who became regent for the adolescent Thutmose III when Thutmose II, her brother died. As the first known female monarch, she ruled for about two decades, thus delaying the kingship of Thutmose III. It is not known how she died or was superseded. Many of her portraits were destroyed after her death, no doubt on orders from Thutmose III. In the surviving portraits she appears as a male pharaoh with royal headdress and kilt and sometimes even the false beard. Some inscriptions refer to her as male. https://rdc.reed.edu/record/149619/files/A_71010.jp2 https://rdc.reed.edu/record/149619/files/P_1A3-EG-HT-H13.tif Unknown artist 229.9 x 61 x 142.2 cm [90.5 x 24 x 56 inches]

Statues Rulers [people] Seated figures 1479 1479 BCE https://rdc.reed.edu/record/219980/files/A_150479.tif Unknown Egyptian builder

Pylons Riverbanks Gateways 1554 1554 BCE https://rdc.reed.edu/record/144628/files/A_66401.jpg https://rdc.reed.edu/record/144628/files/A_66401.hocr https://rdc.reed.edu/record/144628/files/A_66401.txt Unknown artist 164 x 343 cm [96.5625 x 135.0625 inches]; weight: 14900 lbs.

Statues Rulers [people] Sphinxes 1479 1479 BCE https://rdc.reed.edu/record/219952/files/A_150450.tif Unknown artist 63.5 x 33 x 106.7 cm [25 x 13 x 42 inches]; weight: 432 lbs.

Statues Rulers [people] Sphinxes 1479 1479 BCE https://rdc.reed.edu/record/219957/files/A_150455.tif https://rdc.reed.edu/record/219957/files/A_150455.hocr https://rdc.reed.edu/record/219957/files/A_150455.txt Unknown artist 261.5 x 80 x 137 cm [102.9375 x 31.5 x 53.9375 inches]

Statues Rulers [people] Kneeling figures 1479 1479 BCE https://rdc.reed.edu/record/219964/files/A_150462.tif https://rdc.reed.edu/record/219964/files/A_150462.hocr https://rdc.reed.edu/record/219964/files/A_150462.txt Unknown artist height: 295.9 cm [116.5 inches]

Statues Rulers [people] Kneeling figures 1479 1479 BCE https://rdc.reed.edu/record/219969/files/A_150467.tif Unknown artist height: 242 cm [95.25 inches]

Statues Rulers [people] 1479 1479 BCE https://rdc.reed.edu/record/219948/files/A_150446.tif Unknown artist 170 x 41 x 90 cm [66.9375 x 16.125 x 35.4375 inches]

Statues Rulers [people] 1479 1479 BCE https://rdc.reed.edu/record/219962/files/A_150460.tif https://rdc.reed.edu/record/219962/files/A_150460.hocr https://rdc.reed.edu/record/219962/files/A_150460.txt Unknown artist 213 x 50 x 119 cm [83.875 x 19.6875 x 46.875 inches]; weight: 2750 lbs.

Statues Rulers [people] 1479 1479 BCE https://rdc.reed.edu/record/219944/files/A_150442.tif https://rdc.reed.edu/record/219944/files/A_150442.hocr https://rdc.reed.edu/record/219944/files/A_150442.txt Unknown Egyptian creator

Temples Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt Mortuary temples 1479 1479 BCE https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227912/files/A_Keller_01.tif Unknown Egyptian creator

Temples Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt Mortuary temples 1479 1479 BCE https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227913/files/A_Keller_02.tif Unknown Egyptian creator

Temples Mortuary temples 1479 1479 BCE https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227914/files/A_Keller_03.tif Unknown Egyptian creator

Temples Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt Sphinxes 1479 1479 BCE https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227915/files/A_Keller_04.tif Unknown Egyptian creator

Temples Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt Mortuary temples 1479 1479 BCE https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227916/files/A_Keller_05.tif https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227916/files/A_Keller_05.hocr https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227916/files/A_Keller_05.txt Unknown Egyptian creator

Temples Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt Mortuary temples 1479 1479 BCE https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227917/files/A_Keller_06.tif Unknown Egyptian creator

Temples Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt Mortuary temples 1479 1479 BCE https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227918/files/A_Keller_07.tif Unknown Egyptian creator

Temples Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt Mortuary temples 1479 1479 BCE https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227919/files/A_Keller_08.tif https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227919/files/A_Keller_08.hocr https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227919/files/A_Keller_08.txt Unknown Egyptian creator

Temples Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt Monuments 1473 1473 BCE https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227920/files/A_Wilkinson_01.tif https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227920/files/A_Wilkinson_01.hocr https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227920/files/A_Wilkinson_01.txt Attributed to Caminos, Ricardo Augusto [Argentine egyptologist, 1916-1992]

Temples Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt Hieroglyphics 1479 1479 BCE https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227921/files/A_Roth_01.tif Unknown Egyptian artist

Temples Hieroglyphics Cartouches [ornament] p. 10 https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227922/files/A_Roth_02.tif https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227922/files/A_Roth_02.hocr https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227922/files/A_Roth_02.txt Attributed to Roth, Ann Macy [American egyptologist, active 1977]

Temples Egypt Hieroglyphics p. 11 https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227923/files/A_Roth_03.tif https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227923/files/A_Roth_03.hocr https://rdc.reed.edu/record/227923/files/A_Roth_03.txt