Hauteur : 115 cm

Références du Museo Gregoriano Egizio , N°130

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Queen Hatshepsut (18^th Dynasty, 1473-1458 B.C.) ordered this sandstone stele to be set up to commemorate improvement and restoration works carried out in West Thebes. The queen is shown wearing the blue crown and in the act of offering two globular vases to the god Amon-Re. She is accompanied by her nephew, the future king Thutmose III, who is wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt, and the godess Khefet-her-nebes.
Hatshepsut has been the wife of Thutmose II and following his death had assumed the regency in the name of her young nephew. After some years, however, the queen claimed these regal titles and attributes and proclaimed herself pharaoh, after which she ruled autonomously for twenty-two years. Thus, on the death of his aunt, when Thutmose III finally became pharaoh, he condemned his aunt to a damnatio memoriae which saw her name and figure chiselled out of every monument. This stele, which reached the Vatican in 1819, is therefore thought to be from the period of the co-regency.