Scarab Inscribed for the God's Wife Hatshepsut, Living Forever, ca. 1479–1458

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Scarab Inscribed for the God's Wife Hatshepsut, Living Forever, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, early, ca. 1479–1458 , From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Temple of Hatshepsut, Foundation Deposit 9 (I), 1926–27, Steatite (glazed), L. cm (11/16 in.); W. cm (1/2 in.), The base of this scarab is inscribed 'the God's Wife Hatshepsut, living forever.' In the late Seventeenth early Eighteenth Dynasties, the title God's Wife was held by the principal queen or the queen mother

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