The Head and Shoulders of a Sphinx of Hatshepsut is an exhibit in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on display, in gallery 131. This beautifully chiseled fragment granite stands at about 1.203 meters tall. It was created during the 18th Dynasty under the joint reign of the sixth Pharaoh Thutmose the Third and his aunt and step-mother the fifth Pharaoh Hatshepsut. Believed to be sculpted between the years 1479–1458 B.C. and was discovered in Upper Egypt in the city of Thebes. It is believed to only be a portion of one of the six granite sphinxes that were discovered during the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s excavations in the area of Hatshepsut’s mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri in Western Thebes. While there is a complete example of the sculpture in Gallery 131 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this particular exhibit could closely be inspected to discover more details on the artistic expressions of Egyptian sculptures during that specific time period. While the full body of work isn’t completely intact, for just the remains you can tell that the Egyptian sculptors of that period keep the traditional art style of their ancestors to depict the likenesses of their leader, in this case, Pharaoh Hatshepsut.
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