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anneke
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 Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 2:46 pm Post subject: Sarcophagus of Hatshepsut re-inscribed for Tuthmosis I |
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The sarcophagus is now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
From: Wikimedia Commons
The sarcophagus is quite beautiful. It is interesting to see that on the inside, the head and the foot ends have been cut so that the interior was enlarge. Hatshepsut had dedicated her own sarcophagus to her father. All the inscriptions had been adjusted to now refer to Tuthmosis I and the titles had thier feminine endings removed. Hatshepsut added an inscription to the outer right side of the sarcophagus which reads: "She [Hatshepsut] made it as her monument for her beloved father, the good god, Lord of the Two Lands, King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Aakheperkare, the Son of Re, Thutmose, vindicated."
(Info from Arts of Ancient Egypt, a mfa publication)
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Lutz
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Peter Der Manuelian / Christian E. Loeben : New Light on the Recarved Sarcophagus of Hatshepsut and Thutmose I in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. - In: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology - JEA - 79. - London : Egypt Exploration Society, 1993. - ISSN : 0307-5133. - pp. 121 - 155.
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Lutz
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Naunacht
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| Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:33 am Post subject: Re: Sarcophagus of Hatshepsut re-inscribed for Tuthmosis I |
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| anneke wrote: | The sarcophagus is now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
From: Wikimedia Commons
The sarcophagus is quite beautiful. It is interesting to see that on the inside, the head and the foot ends have been cut so that the interior was enlarge. Hatshepsut had dedicated her own sarcophagus to her father. All the inscriptions had been adjusted to now refer to Tuthmosis I and the titles had thier feminine endings removed. Hatshepsut added an inscription to the outer right side of the sarcophagus which reads: "She [Hatshepsut] made it as her monument for her beloved father, the good god, Lord of the Two Lands, King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Aakheperkare, the Son of Re, Thutmose, vindicated."
(Info from Arts of Ancient Egypt, a mfa publication) |
I saw it some years ago in Boston and it really is beautiful.
Hatshepsut must have kept the royal sarcophagus makers busy. She had one made for her when she bore the titles of a queen, then this one which she altered for her father. Then the newer model that replaced the one she gave her father. Finally there's the quasi royal sarcophagus made for Senenmut which may have originally been inscribed for a royal woman.
That article Ancient Egypt - Elements of its Cultural History by Sjef Willockx mentioned below by Lutz was really quite interesting.
One thing I've never understood, why would Hatshepsut go through the trouble of recarving this old sarcophagus when she could have just had the new one decorated for her father? Perhaps there was some evolution in the thinking of the design of a royal sarcophagus and she wanted the latest model for herself. |
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A M Street
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Is this sarcophagus the one found in KV20?
If so it must have been quite a job getting round all those bends.  |
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Styler78
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Naunacht
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| A M Street wrote: | Is this sarcophagus the one found in KV20?
If so it must have been quite a job getting round all those bends. |
There was two of them down there one for Hatshepsut and one for her father. I guess they had practice. |
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