tire edifice, allowing to 

 the men of her family 

 only the space strictly 

 necessary. She called 

 her temple "most splen- 

 did of all," and made it 

 her biographer. Every- 

 where on its walls she 

 engraved and painted 

 pictures illustrating in 

 detail her principal acts. 

 Each successive terrace 

 maintains its own char- 

 acter. 



With the rise to the 

 upper platform we come 

 to oratories and to rec- 

 ords intimately pertain- 

 ing to Hatshepsut, and 

 naively revealing the 

 forceful personality of 

 this most dominant mon- 

 arch of her dynasty. 



THK shrine: of TriK cow 



GODDKSS 



Here on this upper 

 terrace, sheltered by an- 

 other of the matchless 

 porticoes, is a shrine of 

 Hathor. The covered 

 vestibule is guarded on 

 either side by Hathor- 

 crowned columns, keep- 

 ing watch and ward over 

 the secret of the speos. 

 In the wall-painting with- 

 in, Hathor herself is rep- 

 resented under the form 

 of a cow suckling a boy, 

 protecting a man stand- 

 ing before her, each 

 bearing the Queen's 

 name. 



Fragments of a most 

 interesting sculpture 



were found on the lower 

 platform of Queen Hat- 

 shepsut's temple. The 

 complete relief showed 

 the method adopted by 

 the ancient Egyptians in 

 the transport of the large 

 obelisks. Three rows of 

 boats — owing to the dis- 

 regard for perspective, 

 apparently formed in 

 platoons, three groups 



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