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*** Amun's proclamation of her rule was inscribed on a monument: | *** Amun's proclamation of her rule was inscribed on a monument: | ||
<pre>Welcome my sweet daughter, my favorite, the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Maatkare, Hatshepsut. Thou art the Pharaoh, taking possession of the Two Lands.</pre> | <pre>Welcome my sweet daughter, my favorite, the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Maatkare, Hatshepsut. Thou art the Pharaoh, taking possession of the Two Lands.</pre> | ||
[[File: | [[File:Hatshetsup-temple-1by7.jpg|thumb|partially reconstructed limestone temple]] | ||
* accomplishments: | * accomplishments: | ||
** Hatshepsut focused on economic expansion of Egyptian trade networks | ** Hatshepsut focused on economic expansion of Egyptian trade networks | ||
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* inscription from her tomb at Deir el-Bahari | * inscription from her tomb at Deir el-Bahari | ||
<pre>Hear ye, all persons! Ye people as many as ye are! I have done things according to the design of my heart. … I have restored that which was in ruins, I have raised up that which was unfinished since the Asiatics were in the midst of the Northland, and the barbarians were in the midst of them, overthrowing that which was made, while they ruled in ignorance of Re. He did not do according to the divine command until my majesty. When I was firm upon the throne of Re, I was ennobled until the two periods of years...I came as Hor-watit flaming against my enemies.</pre> | <pre>Hear ye, all persons! Ye people as many as ye are! I have done things according to the design of my heart. … I have restored that which was in ruins, I have raised up that which was unfinished since the Asiatics were in the midst of the Northland, and the barbarians were in the midst of them, overthrowing that which was made, while they ruled in ignorance of Re. He did not do according to the divine command until my majesty. When I was firm upon the throne of Re, I was ennobled until the two periods of years...I came as Hor-watit flaming against my enemies.</pre> | ||
** source: [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hatshepsut Hatshepsut (wikiquote, citing James Henry Breasted, 1906] | ** source: [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hatshepsut Hatshepsut (wikiquote, citing James Henry Breasted, 1906)] | ||
* erasure of Hatshepsut's legacy | * erasure of Hatshepsut's legacy | ||
** her stepson, Thutmose III and his son defaced and destroyed his step-mother's legacy by destroying her monuments and temples, defacing inscriptions and otherwise removing reference to her in his own inscriptions | ** her stepson, Thutmose III and his son defaced and destroyed his step-mother's legacy by destroying her monuments and temples, defacing inscriptions and otherwise removing reference to her in his own inscriptions | ||