Divine Birth and Coronation Inscriptions of Hatshepsut - Milestone Documents

Divine Birth and Coronation Inscriptions of Hatshepsut

( 1473 BCE ) Commentary by T. Musacchio, John Jay College, CUNY
  • “[Amon] found her as she slept in the beauty of her palace. She waked at the fragrance of the god.… He went to her immediately, coivit cum ea, he imposed his desire upon her, he caused that she should see him in his form of a god.… She rejoiced at the sight of his beauty, his love passed into her limbs, which the fragrance of the god flooded; all his odors were from Punt.” - Birth of Queen Hatshepsut
  • “They [the gods] said, ‘Welcome, daughter of Amon-Re; thou hast seen thy administration in the land, thou shall set in order, thou shalt restore that which has gone to its ruin, thou shalt make thy monuments in this house, thou shalt victual the offering-tables of him who begat thee, thou shalt pass through the land and thou shalt embrace many countries.’” - Coronation of Queen Hatshepsut
  • “They [the gods] shall set thy boundary as far as the breadth of heaven, as far as the limits of the twelfth hour of the night; the Two Lands shall be filled with children—, thy numerous children are [as] the number of thy grain.” - Coronation of Queen Hatshepsut
  • “Said his majesty [Thutmose I] to her: ‘Come, glorious one; I have placed (thee) before me; that thou mayest see thy administration in the palace, and the excellent deeds of thy ka's that thou mayest assume thy royal dignity, glorious in thy magic, mighty in thy strength. Thou shalt be powerful in the Two Lands; thou shalt seize the rebellious; thou shalt appear in the palace, thy forehead shall be adorned with the double diadem'.” - Coronation of Queen Hatshepsut
  • “As for any man who shall love her in his heart, and shall do her homage every day, he shall shine, and he shall flourish exceedingly; [but] as for any man who shall speak against the name of her majesty, the god shall determine his death immediately, even by the gods who exercise protection behind her every day.” - Coronation of Queen Hatshepsut
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Temple of Deir el-Bahri, built in the reign of Hatshepsut (Library of Congress)

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