Foundation deposit
scarab
glazed steatite
Scarab made of green glazed steatite. Type 5[1] - back with marked prothorax and elytra and V-shaped marking on either wing-case.. On the base there is an inscription: King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Maat-ka-Ra (nsw bjtj Mȝʿ.t-kȝ-Rʿ). Just behind the Maat figure there is a shape resembling a ḥḏ-sign. Inscription is oriented horizontally on the scarab, hieroglyphs are oriented to the right.
Excavated by the H.E. Winlock (Metropolitan Museum of Art) in the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari in 1926-1927. Gained by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1927 in the division of finds (Rogers Fund).
Museum object
Bibliography:
- Weinstein, James Morris, Foundation Deposits in Ancient Egypt, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania 1973, 159-160
- Roehrig, Catharine H., The Foundation Deposits of Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple at Deir el-Bahari, in: Dorman, Peter F., Bryan, Betsy M., Galán, José M., Occasional Proceedings of the Theban Workshop. Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut. Papers from the Theban Workshop 2010, Chicago 2014, 150, 154
- Winlock, Herbert Eustis, Excavations at Deir el-Bahri 1911-1931, New York 1942, 132-135
- Hayes, William C., The Scepter of Egypt: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, The Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom, Cambridge, Mass. 1959, 88