Detail of Usurped Cartouche of Hatshepsut

Item Overview

Title

Detail of Usurped Cartouche of Hatshepsut

Photographer

Brand, Peter J. (Peter James), 1967-

Collection

UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE)

Notes

Description

45 degrees
Engraved
Article: Usurpation of Monuments

Caption

Figure 2. Detail of Figure 1: surcharged cartouches of Hatshepsut. The sun disk from Hatshepsut’s prenomen was never erased. Faint traces of the excised glyphs, including the name of Amun at top of left cartouche and the Maat figure in rightcartouche, are still visible.

Physical Description

Medium

Limestone

Keywords

Genre

Relief

Material Culture, Art and Architecture
Visual Arts

Subject Geographic

Karnak

Subject Temporal

Reign of Thutmoses III
18th Dynasty
New Kingdom
Reign of Hatshepsut

Resource type

still image