Hatshepsut - Osiride Heads at the MMA

Metropolitan Museum  of Art, New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has the largest collection of Hatshepsut Osiride Heads found so far. Click the above link to see their collections more complete Heads. Further fragments are not included here, but will be included in the conclusion of the Osiride Head Project. Click on each one to view their details. I will use this information to see how many can be placed (virtually) back in their original locations at Deir el Bahri.

Regards,
Stuart

Hatshepsut Osiride Head Project Update

Just to say that i expect to be able to complete the Osiride Head Project this year (which is much sooner than first thought. All obvious heads have been recorded, but i am bow looking at the Osiride Heads that are not displayed in museums and Deir el Bahri. More to come, shorty I hope.

Photographs are always an issue and has slowed down progress slightly, but they are not completely necessary at this stage.

Regards,
Stuart

Hatshepsut Osiride Head Project

I've begun looking at the 3rd Terrace of Deir el Bahri, specifically at the oversized Osiride statues of Hatshepsut. I am going to see how many of the Osiride heads can be located at Deir el Bahri and also within collections around the world. UPDATE: I am looking at all Hatshepsut Osiride Heads, not just the engaged (tied into the buildings structure and not freestanding) statues on the 3rd Terrace.

Another project (please excuse the over-use of the word "project") will be the Punt Collonade Block Project. Here i will concentrate solely on those Punt reliefs which survive today but do not appear at Deir el Bahri.

My aims are simple. I need to understand Deir el Bahri, bit by bit. Looking at specific subjects such as particular statues or colonnades will help me understand parts of the temple at a steady pace (or that's the plan). Also i am curious about what happened to these items since their discovery(ies). Where did they end up and how did they get there? I've tested the water on this recently and appreciate that provenance can be a bit of a sore point. However- its a pain in the neck i am happy to take on.

I am curious how much information I can be gather and how much I can learn in the process. A bit of serious fun.

Stuart