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QUEEN HATASU,
AND HER EXPEDITION TO THE LAND OF PUNT.
Queen Hatasu has been happily described as the Queen
Elizabeth of Egyptian history; and she was undoubtedly one
of the most extraordinary women in the annals of the an-
cient East. A daughter of Thothmes I., third Pharaoh of
the Eighteenth Dynasty, and of his wife, Queen Ahmes Xe-
fertari, she inherited sovereign rights in virtue of her mater-
nal descent from the old Twelfth Dynasty line.(M)
It has pleased historians to rank Thothmes II. as the im-
mediate successor of Thothmes I., and to place the reign
°f Queen Hatasu between the reigns of her two brothers,
Thothmes II. and Thothmes III. By some she is described
as Queen Consort during the reign of Thothmes II., and as
ueen-regent during the earlier years of the reign of Thoth-
mes III. By others, and most emphatically by Dr. Brugsch,
she is stigmatized as a usurper. As a matter of fact, how-
ever, Hatasu was actually Queen, and Queen-regnant, during
the lifetime of her father. Her accession, therefore, dates
from a time long preceding that of her brother, Thothmes II.
An important historical inscription sculptured on one of the
pylons of the Great Temple of Earnak records this event in
eighteen columns of hieroglyphic text, which were copied
and translated by the late Vicorute E. de liouge in 1S72.
QUEEN HATASU,
AND HER EXPEDITION TO THE LAND OF PUNT.
Queen Hatasu has been happily described as the Queen
Elizabeth of Egyptian history; and she was undoubtedly one
of the most extraordinary women in the annals of the an-
cient East. A daughter of Thothmes I., third Pharaoh of
the Eighteenth Dynasty, and of his wife, Queen Ahmes Xe-
fertari, she inherited sovereign rights in virtue of her mater-
nal descent from the old Twelfth Dynasty line.(M)
It has pleased historians to rank Thothmes II. as the im-
mediate successor of Thothmes I., and to place the reign
°f Queen Hatasu between the reigns of her two brothers,
Thothmes II. and Thothmes III. By some she is described
as Queen Consort during the reign of Thothmes II., and as
ueen-regent during the earlier years of the reign of Thoth-
mes III. By others, and most emphatically by Dr. Brugsch,
she is stigmatized as a usurper. As a matter of fact, how-
ever, Hatasu was actually Queen, and Queen-regnant, during
the lifetime of her father. Her accession, therefore, dates
from a time long preceding that of her brother, Thothmes II.
An important historical inscription sculptured on one of the
pylons of the Great Temple of Earnak records this event in
eighteen columns of hieroglyphic text, which were copied
and translated by the late Vicorute E. de liouge in 1S72.