Sphinx of Hatshepsut

Server Costs Fundraiser 2024

Help our mission to provide free history education to the world! Please donate and contribute to covering our server costs in 2024. With your support, millions of people learn about history entirely for free every month.
$3889 / $18000

Illustration

Jan van der Crabben
by Reno Laithienne
published on 03 October 2020
Sphinx of Hatshepsut Download Full Size Image

Sphinx of Hatshepsut (ca. 1479–1458 BCE). This colossal sphinx portrays the female pharaoh Hatshepsut with the body of a lion and a human head wearing a nemes–headcloth and false beard. The sculptor has carefully observed the powerful muscles of the lion as contrasted to the handsome, idealized face of the pharaoh. It was one of at least six granite sphinxes that stood in Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri.

Remove Ads
Advertisement

Cite This Work

APA Style

Laithienne, R. (2020, October 03). Sphinx of Hatshepsut. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/12798/sphinx-of-hatshepsut/

Chicago Style

Laithienne, Reno. "Sphinx of Hatshepsut." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified October 03, 2020. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/12798/sphinx-of-hatshepsut/.

MLA Style

Laithienne, Reno. "Sphinx of Hatshepsut." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 03 Oct 2020. Web. 26 Jul 2024.

Membership