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The goddess of the Theban mountain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

V. A. Donohue
V. A. Donohue*
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C/o Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford OX1 2PH, UK
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The discovery of a colossal ‘statue group’ in the cliffs at Deir el-Bahri sheds new light on the ways in which pharaonic Egyptians experienced the dynamism of their physical environment, and made appeal to it in validation of royal legitimacy; suggests re-interpretation of the symbolic function of the memorial temple of Queen Hatshepsut; and defines a previously unrecognized tradition in rupestral architecture, spatially distributed from the Arabah to the Sudan.

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Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 253 , December 1992 , pp. 871 - 885
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1992

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