

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN: 1745-1744|66|253|871-885
ISSN: 0003-598x
Source: Antiquity, Vol.66, Iss.253, 1992-12, pp. : 871-885
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Abstract
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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