The Divine Birth and Coronation Inscriptions of Hatshepsut are a narrative commissioned by Hatshepsut in order to justify her rulership as pharaoh of Egypt. In about 1473 BCE, a woman named Hatshepsut was crowned pharaoh, although she was not the true heir to the throne. Her father was King Thutmose I, and she married her half-brother, Thutmose II; however, her nephew/stepson, Thutmose III, was the next in line for the kingship after Hatshepsut’s husband died. Thutmose III was quite young when his father died, so Hatshepsut began to reign as his regent in about 1479 BCE. The two shared the throne until Hatshepsut’s death.