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hatshepsut

/hætˈʃɛpsʊt/

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What does hatshepsut mean?

proper noun

  1. An ancient Egyptian queen (1508–1458 BCE).
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/hætˈʃɛpsʊt/

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When the famous Hatshepsut, after the return of her expedition to Punt in the ninth year of her young consort Thothmes III, decided to build her temple at Deir el-Bahari in the necropolis of Western Thebes, she sought to emphasize her claim to the throne of Egypt by recording her own divine origin upon its walls.
L. W. (Leonard William) KingLegends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew TraditionProject Gutenberg ebook #2030