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Ancient Egypt; 18th dynasty; Cultural Memory; Genre; Hatshepsut; Deir el-Bahari.
In this research we investigate the temple of the pharaoh-queen Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari (1473-1458 B.C.E.). We analyzed the structure of the temple thinking about its monumentality within its construction space, how it was responsible for maintaining the memory of the queen and influencing the cultural memory of society. We used as a source the archeologist catalogs of the archaeologist Edouard Naville (1896) and (1898) which contain the iconographies of the temple. These plates cover Hatshepsut's coronation, her divine birth and her journey to the land of Punt. Using the theoretical foundation of the concept of cultural memory, reflecting on the construction of the temple as a female element that perpetuated this memory in Egyptian society, and the concept of gender to understand the role of a figure as a pharaoh. As methodological tools we use the iconographic analysis of art, for example, by Richard Wilkinson (2003) and we identify how Hatshepsut's iconographies can be based on temples that are an Egyptian art. For this, we made an iconographic corpus and submitted the images of the temple to analysis based on the concepts of semiotics and hermeneutics of Valérie Angenot (2015) observing how the visual elements can be interpreted from the layers of meaning in the composition of the image. In this way, we developed an interpretation of the iconographies from the analysis of elements of Egyptian art and the interpretation of the fundamental images for the composition of the temple and its social influence in the New Kingdom.