Foundation Stone with Inscriptions

1479-1458 BCE (New Kingdom)

5.4 cm 2.4 cm 3.5 cm

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Daughter of King Thutmose I and wife of her half-brother, King Thutmose II, Queen Hatshepsut eventually ruled Egypt as pharaoh in her own right. This commemorative stone was placed at a construction site, probably of the temple built for her at Deir el-Bahari, one of the most...

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Rev. William MacGregor Collection Sale, Sotheby's, London, 1922, p. 83, no. 648; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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