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Lot Essay
Sculpted in shallow raised relief and brightly painted, this fragment depicts a standard bearer, shown in profile to the right. He wears a finely-rendered, short echeloned wig. His face is well-articulated, with an elegant elongated eye and brow, a small nose and full lips. His long right arm is raised above his head.
This standard bearer derives from the upper portion of the western part of the northern wall of the Third Terrace of the temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri. Due to rockfall from the cliffs looming above the temple, the walls were severely damaged in antiquity. These scenes have now been virtually reconstructed with many missing fragments such as the present example. For a discussion of the decorative program at the temple, see A.M. Roth, "Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple at Deir el-Bahri," in C.H. Roehring, et al., eds., Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh, pp. 147-151.
This standard bearer derives from the upper portion of the western part of the northern wall of the Third Terrace of the temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri. Due to rockfall from the cliffs looming above the temple, the walls were severely damaged in antiquity. These scenes have now been virtually reconstructed with many missing fragments such as the present example. For a discussion of the decorative program at the temple, see A.M. Roth, "Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple at Deir el-Bahri," in C.H. Roehring, et al., eds., Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh, pp. 147-151.