Military expeditions of King Hatshepsut

Taterka, Filip

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“…76 Hatshepsut embraced the civic role of the head of state and advanced the kingdom by building for the gods, leading military expeditions and organising long-distance trade missions. 77 She abandoned her queen's tomb in Wadi Sikkat Taqa el-Zeid and initiated the construction of a tomb in the Valley of the Kings. 78 Hatshepsut also built a monumental temple for her cult at Deir el-Bahri and incorporated sanctuaries for other deities as well.…”

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Hatshepsut: Transcending Gender in Ancient Egypt

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2020

Gender & History

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The Eighteenth Dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh, Hatshepsut (c. 1473-1458, has attracted a great deal of attention for doing gender wrong, at least according to modern scholarship ( Figure 1). She began her career as the regent for her step-son/nephew, Thutmose III, and then at some point within the first seven years, she ascended the throne as co-regent. 1 Hatshepsut's public gender identity fails to conform to our norms of cultural intelligibility, but the fact that this gender transformation occurred over the course of two decades indicates that it was a persistent and intentional gender 'identity' for Hatshepsut. 2 Hatshepsut was not making claims about who she was as a private person, but instead she was subscribing to the gendered expectations of rulership. This public identity has appeared to modern Egyptologists as gender incongruity, but I will argue that Hatshepsut's public representations were intelligible to ancient Egyptians and even a deliberate attempt to appeal to their sensibilities and provide them with solace in her rule.A study of Hatshepsut promises to contribute to our current understanding of gender in that it reframes our typical assumptions of ancient/traditional gender constructions and provides a model we can use to move forward with our own modern discourse about gender fluidity. For Egyptologists, this study elucidates the societal and historical factors that were complicit in keeping Hatshepsut in power. The existence of hermaphroditic creator deities, the composite nature of kingship, post-mortem gender fluidity and the rules of compositional decorum all intertwined to naturalise Hatshepsut's female masculinity and her ascension to the throne of Egypt.Hatshepsut was not the anomaly that we think she was. There were several other leaders in the New Kingdom who displayed non-binary gender identities, such as Queen Tiye, Akhenaten, Nefertiti and Tawosret. 3 Hatshepsut was only one example in an era of transgressors, who willingly played with composite imagery. The earliest elements added to her person were a masculine crown and the traditional title of male Egyptian king. Subsequently, she depicted herself in increasingly masculine poses, holding symbols reserved for male kings, in male dress and with male physiognomy. It was her unique position as King's Daughter, King's Wife and later Pharaoh that made her female masculinity more ubiquitous and therefore more discernible. Hatshepsut exemplified the virile woman who broke the bond between masculinity and the male body. In ancient Egypt, masculinity embodied the qualities that were culturally ascribed

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Hatshepsut: Transcending Gender in Ancient Egypt

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2020

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“… 54 Gabolde and Gabolde 1989; with Gabolde 2009: 175–176, argue for late Thutmose III as the date of these fragments. Taterka 2017 might be closer to the mark when he dates these fragments to Hatshepsut, but this I shall discuss at a later date; see Spalinger forthcoming. These Deir el Medineh chariot depictions are highly significant and have yet to be properly analysed. …”

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“… 61 See n. 53 above. Let us date them to Hatshepsut, if we follow Taterka 2017, or possibly later (Thutmose III, later time, following both Gaboldes). Harvey 1998: 548–549, figs 95–96 has inaccurate reconstructions. …”

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Fortresses as Ideological Images of Power

Spalinger

2023

The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

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This paper is a discussion of the essential, indeed the key, element of New Kingdom pictorial representations of warfare in Asia surrounding the depiction of the enemy citadel-fortress. We appear to find this depiction from the early stages of the 18th Dynasty onwards, but its inclusion as well as absence needs further specification, and that is the aim of this study. Based on earlier analyses of images of warfare, the following contribution carries the vector of imagery and historical development. The contrast of these urban scenes with Libyan and Nubian combat depictions, frequently touched upon in scholarship, will be partially limned in this paper. [Formula: see text]

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Hatshepsut – A construção de uma imagética de poder faraônico

Camilo

2024

Rev. Estud. Filos. Hist. Antig.

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Military expeditions of King Hatshepsut

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Hatshepsut: Transcending Gender in Ancient Egypt

Hatshepsut: Transcending Gender in Ancient Egypt

Fortresses as Ideological Images of Power

Hatshepsut – A construção de uma imagética de poder faraônico

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