The sculpture of Hatshepsut Wearing the Khat Headdress is located in the gallery of 115 in the Egyptian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This sculpture was made in the eighteenth dynasty of the New Kingdom in Egypt. The scholars believed that this statue was made in the joint region of Hatshepsut and her stepson Thutmose III which is 1473-1458 B.C. This sculpture was found in the Thebes in the upper Egypt, and it was originally from Hatshepsut’s temple at Deir el-Bahri and was excavated in 1927 to 1928. Hatshepsut Wearing the Khat headdress was a statue that commemorated one of the rites because the pharaoh donned the khat headdress in particular ritual performance. Also, this is a memorial statue of rite because the information that provided by the Metropolitan museum illustrates this sculpture wore an amulet which is same as the kneeling figure “And from the chain around the neck, the same pouch like amulet is suspended that she also…show more content… Hatshepsut was the only child of the Pharaoh Tuthmosis I and his Queen Ahmose. She has the purest royal blood, but she could not be a pharaoh due to her gender. Therefore, the Pharaoh Tuthmosis I passed his power to his third son Tuthmosis II when the first two sons had passed away. However, Tuthmosis II was not the son of Queen; as a result, he married to his sister Hatshepsut to strengthen his power. After Tuthmosis passed away, Hatshepsut became the new pharaoh because she was the purest royal princess and the successor Tuthmosis was only two years old. Since the pharaohs were always male, she also had to pretend her as a male if she wanted to be the pharaoh. Her male form had frequently shown on the wall paint and different types of relief
