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Title: Kings and gods of Egypt
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Moret, Alexandre, 1868-1938
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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take the offerings placed on two littlealtars which occupy the place of the originalfigure of the Queen, still visible, in spite of thehammering out of its contours. What conclusionis to be drawn from this evidence? The following,it would appear. The Queen and her husbandThotmes III were dispossessed and replaced bythe very men whose names are superimposedon the former and who made these alterations,2Thotmes I and Thotmes II. That would explainwhy in the chapels of Anubis3 and Hathor whichare of later date than the bas-reliefs of the birthand enthronement, the royal donors are no longerHatshopsitu and Thotmes III, but Thotmes I andThotmes II, who up to this time have neverappeared in this rdle in the parts of the templebuilt at an earlier date. •Ik-, lor cit., $ \.■ s •-• a \. The conjecture thai Hatshopsitu was perse- ! by Thotmes II had already bees admitted l>y E. ileRoug£.* With the hrine of which we have preserved the panels (Dcir-rl Bahari ii, 27 _><;).
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Clich6 Doucet.Deir-el-Bahari. Entrance to Anubis Chapel.-.Plate V. Queen Hatshopsitu and Her Temple 31 Was this restoration of masculine government-brought about by the exigencies of militaryexpeditions which it seemed unfitting should be ledby a queen? Be that as it may, Thotmes I andThotmes II are no sooner joint kings on the thronethan they begin anew campaigns in Nubia andexpeditions to the shores of the Euphrates.1The booty amassed during these wars permitsthem to build an altar and new chapels at Deir-el-Bahari. In the midst of all these events Thotmes I, dies, which fact is proved by a monument pre-served at Turin, in which Thotmes II is representedas adoring his deceased father.2 From an inscrip-tion recently discovered at Karnak,3 we learnfurther that after the death of his father, Thotmes II, feeling his position insecure, took as his co-regent, not Hatshopsitu, but her discarded hus-band, Thotmes III. Their joint government lastedtill the death of Thotmes II, which occurred

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