As a ruler ,
Hatshepsut
inaugurated building projects that far exceeded those of her predecessors . Both Hatshepsut and
Thutmosis III
left numerous remains in Nubia: at Qasr Ibrim , Sai , Semna , Faras , Quban , and especially Buhen , where the queen built a temple for
Horus
of Buhen . The scenes on the walls of the temple originally included figures of both Hatshepsut and Thutmosis III , but he later replaced her name with his own and that of his father and grandfather . The Buhen Temple (now entirely moved to the Khartoum Museum) contains scenes of Hatshepsut's coronation and veneration of her father .
Memphis may have received attention from Hatshepsut as a ruler . An alabaster jar fragment from the region of the
Ptah Temple
has been identified , but more significantly the colossal Egyptian alabaster sphinx that sits within the south wall of the Ramesside Temple precinct may have formed part of an earlier approach to the temple and was very likely accompanied by a second sphinx .
The
Hatnub
quarries were located in Middle
Egypt
, not very far from another monument in her name , namely , the rock-cut shrine
at
Beni Hassan
that is now called Speos Artemidos . Apart from the evidence of quarrying at Hatnub , there is no record of the
Eighteenth Dynasty
Kings building in Middle Egypt before Hatshepsut , and her lengthy inscription at Speos Artemidos documented that she was the first to restore temples in the area since the destructive days of the wars against the Hyksos . Hatshepsut claimed in her inscription to have rebuilt temples at Hebenu (the capital of the Oryx Nome) , at Hennopolis , and at Cusae , and to have acted for the lioness-goddess Bakhet sacred in the region around the Speos itself . This work carried out there "was under the supervision of Djehuty , Nomarch in Middle Egypt and Overseer of the Treasury .
Thebes received more attention from Hatshepsut than any other site did in Egypt . The
Temple of Karnak
grew once more under her supervision , with the construction being directed by a number of officials , including Hapusenb (her High Priest of Amun) , Djehuty (the Overseer of Treasury) , and Senenmut (the Royal Steward) . At Karnak , Hatshepsut added the 8th pylon , a new southern gateway to the temple precinct . The new sandstone pylon was the first stone-built pylon on the north-south route
that connected Karnak central to the
Mut
precinct . However , the face of this pylon was erased and redecorated in the first years of the reign of Amenhotep II , son of Thutmosis III . She also built a temple in the north-south valley dedicated to Amun-Re-Kamutef , a creator form of the god . Elsewhere in Karnak central , Hatshepsut had a palace built for her ritual activities , and she constructed a series of rooms around the central bark shrine where she had depicted her purification and acceptance by the gods . She also had a quartzite bark shrine , which is now being reconstructed in the
Open Air Museum
at Karnak .
The queen also built a temple to Amun at Madinet Habu at the southern end of Thebes . Completed by Thutmosis III , this chapel housed an important cult of the god on the West , becoming part of the regular festival processional cycle which included Deir El-Bahari and Karnak , and later also involved Osiris .
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