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SEASON OF I926-I927
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Meantime, life at the court in Thebes must have been feverish. If
we suppose that Thut-mose had done away with Sen-Mut, we may
take it for granted that he did not stop there. Doubtless, as he saw
his chance he knocked out from under Hat-shepsut one prop after
another—Hepu-sonbe, Nehsy, Thuty, and Sen-Mut’s brother Sen-
men. The names of all of them and of others have been erased every-
where. Of Hat-shepsut herself we have a monument of the 20th Year,
and then at the end of the 22nd Year we find Thut-mose free at last,
sole ruler of Egypt, at the head of his armies, making his first cam-
paign in Syria. The chronicle used by Manetho seems to have given
to her 21 years and 9 months of rule from the death of her brother,
and since that agrees perfectly with our other information, we may
date Hat-shepsut’s death in the latter part of January, 1479 b.c.
Once more Deir el Bahri rang with the sound of chisels and mallets.
Some whip other than Neb-iry’s cracked over the backs of slaves, and
the statues, still bright in the first freshness of their paint, were hauled
back, down the avenue. This time they were to be broken up and
dumped over the roadside into the quarry, and it was not without its
appropriateness that some of Hat-shepsut’s portraits should have
been rolled in on top of the empty tomb of Sen-Mut and buried with
it, deep under heaped-up rubbish.
Note: In the plan of the Hat-shepsut temple used as an end paper
of this volume there should be made the following additions to the
foundation deposits mentioned above. J-K are two deposits found by
Howard Carter, digging for Lord Carnarvon in 1910 and mentioned
in Five Years Explorations, pp. 4 and 30. L-M, which correspond to
A-B on the northern side of the temple platform as originally con-
ceived, and N under a proposed sanctuary are approximately the
positions of three more deposits now lost. In the summer of 1930
Harold Nelson of the Chicago Expedition bought a lot of Hat-shepsut
foundation deposit material which might have come from any of
these points. He generously gave me a chance to buy in whole or in
part, any of the objects, and I acquired a scarab now in the Metro-
politan Museum of Art, No. 31.4.3. I believe that it is quite possible
that the Arabs from whom Nelson bought his material did not make
their find at Deir el Bahri but at the Valley Temple, or from a resting
place of the Barque of Amun half way up the causeway.
153
Meantime, life at the court in Thebes must have been feverish. If
we suppose that Thut-mose had done away with Sen-Mut, we may
take it for granted that he did not stop there. Doubtless, as he saw
his chance he knocked out from under Hat-shepsut one prop after
another—Hepu-sonbe, Nehsy, Thuty, and Sen-Mut’s brother Sen-
men. The names of all of them and of others have been erased every-
where. Of Hat-shepsut herself we have a monument of the 20th Year,
and then at the end of the 22nd Year we find Thut-mose free at last,
sole ruler of Egypt, at the head of his armies, making his first cam-
paign in Syria. The chronicle used by Manetho seems to have given
to her 21 years and 9 months of rule from the death of her brother,
and since that agrees perfectly with our other information, we may
date Hat-shepsut’s death in the latter part of January, 1479 b.c.
Once more Deir el Bahri rang with the sound of chisels and mallets.
Some whip other than Neb-iry’s cracked over the backs of slaves, and
the statues, still bright in the first freshness of their paint, were hauled
back, down the avenue. This time they were to be broken up and
dumped over the roadside into the quarry, and it was not without its
appropriateness that some of Hat-shepsut’s portraits should have
been rolled in on top of the empty tomb of Sen-Mut and buried with
it, deep under heaped-up rubbish.
Note: In the plan of the Hat-shepsut temple used as an end paper
of this volume there should be made the following additions to the
foundation deposits mentioned above. J-K are two deposits found by
Howard Carter, digging for Lord Carnarvon in 1910 and mentioned
in Five Years Explorations, pp. 4 and 30. L-M, which correspond to
A-B on the northern side of the temple platform as originally con-
ceived, and N under a proposed sanctuary are approximately the
positions of three more deposits now lost. In the summer of 1930
Harold Nelson of the Chicago Expedition bought a lot of Hat-shepsut
foundation deposit material which might have come from any of
these points. He generously gave me a chance to buy in whole or in
part, any of the objects, and I acquired a scarab now in the Metro-
politan Museum of Art, No. 31.4.3. I believe that it is quite possible
that the Arabs from whom Nelson bought his material did not make
their find at Deir el Bahri but at the Valley Temple, or from a resting
place of the Barque of Amun half way up the causeway.