Egyptian princess sculpture unearthed in Luxor
Amenhotep III’s beloved daughter stood between his feet in a colossal statue of the king.
Archaeologists working at Luxor, Egypt, have uncovered a statue of an Egyptian princess named Iset, the daughter of King Amenhotep III, who ruled around 1388BC-1348BC, and Queen Tiye.
Though the face of the calcite statue has been eroded and the feet remain to be discovered, the princess’s round wig can be clearly seen and she holds a menat-necklace, an item
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March 7, 2014
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associated with the goddess Hathor. The statue was excavated at the funerary temple of King Amenhotep III on Luxor’s West Bank, a site famous for the Colossi of Memnon, two seated statues of the king that still flank the temple’s entrance.
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