The few remaining Hatsheput portraits are remarkable for their general destruction--still a why unanswered--and their artists' creative and varying solution to the sex problem. The sex problem being how to represent a female pharaoh when masculine attributes dominated such royal propaganda. Solutions varied--as evidenced by the presence or lack thereof of Hatsheput's breasts and the pharaoh's beard as featured in her few remaining sculptural portraits--among many other tidbits.
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