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142 QUEEN HATSHEPSU ch. tii.
I. and his wife and sister Queen Aahmes. Here
reposed near their parents the princess Kheb-neferu-Ka,
who died young, by her side Tehuti-mes II., and his
restless, ambitious consort Hatshepsu, and lastly the
Pharaoh Tehuti-mes III.
Scarcely had the brother and husband of Hatshepsu
closed his eyes when the proud queen laid aside her
woman's dress, clothed herself in man's attire, and
adorned herself with the crown and insignia of royalty.
She assumed the sole government of the country, while
her }r0unger brother, Tehuti-mes III., was put aside.
Her name was now expanded to
Maat-ka-Ka-khnem-Amen. Hatsiiei'su.
The first deed of the new woman-king shows her
hatred of her deceased brother and husband, whose
memory she sought to obliterate in every conceivable
manner. She erased his names from the monuments
they had erected together, and replaced them by her
own or those of her father. The buildings which had
been planned on a great scale were now continued,
and before all others the Stage Temple of Deir-el-Bahari
was carried to completion by untiring efforts.
The friend and architect of the queen was named
Senmut, the son of Eames and of Ha-nefer. After his
death the queen raised to him ' as a mark of gratitude'
a stone monument, his likeness in black granite, in a
sitting posture, and on the right shoulder was this
short but significant inscription : Nen hem em an apu,
' his ancestors were not found in writing-.' In the in-
scriptions on his monument he abstains from mention-
ing the woman-king otherwise than as ' he,' for thus
the will of the queen commanded.
Hived under the lord of the country, the king Maat-ka-Ra : may
he live for ever !
I. and his wife and sister Queen Aahmes. Here
reposed near their parents the princess Kheb-neferu-Ka,
who died young, by her side Tehuti-mes II., and his
restless, ambitious consort Hatshepsu, and lastly the
Pharaoh Tehuti-mes III.
Scarcely had the brother and husband of Hatshepsu
closed his eyes when the proud queen laid aside her
woman's dress, clothed herself in man's attire, and
adorned herself with the crown and insignia of royalty.
She assumed the sole government of the country, while
her }r0unger brother, Tehuti-mes III., was put aside.
Her name was now expanded to
Maat-ka-Ka-khnem-Amen. Hatsiiei'su.
The first deed of the new woman-king shows her
hatred of her deceased brother and husband, whose
memory she sought to obliterate in every conceivable
manner. She erased his names from the monuments
they had erected together, and replaced them by her
own or those of her father. The buildings which had
been planned on a great scale were now continued,
and before all others the Stage Temple of Deir-el-Bahari
was carried to completion by untiring efforts.
The friend and architect of the queen was named
Senmut, the son of Eames and of Ha-nefer. After his
death the queen raised to him ' as a mark of gratitude'
a stone monument, his likeness in black granite, in a
sitting posture, and on the right shoulder was this
short but significant inscription : Nen hem em an apu,
' his ancestors were not found in writing-.' In the in-
scriptions on his monument he abstains from mention-
ing the woman-king otherwise than as ' he,' for thus
the will of the queen commanded.
Hived under the lord of the country, the king Maat-ka-Ra : may
he live for ever !