Calcite vase with lid. Vase has flat base, ledged rim, cylindrical body and concave neck. Traces of ointment are visible inside. On the lid and on the vase there are almost the same inscriptions in incised hieroglyphs, originally filled with blue paint. On the lid there are 3 horizontal lines of text:
"Living Good Goddess Maat-ka-Ra, she made her building as her father's, Amun, during stretching the cord in Amun of Djeser-djeseru, what she does being endowed with life like Ra for eternity (1.ʿnḫ nṯr.t nfr(.t) Mȝʿt-kȝ-Rʿ jr.n.s m mnw. 2. s n (j)t.s Jmn ḫt.f pḏ-šs ḥr Jmn 3. Ḏsr-ḏsrw m pr jr.s ʿnḫ.tj mj Rʿ ḏ.t)".
On the vase body text is divided into three columns topped with pt-signs:
"Good Goddess Maat-ka-Ra, she made her building as her father's, Amun, during stretching the cord in Amun of Djeser-djeseru, what she does being endowed with life y (1.nṯr.t nfr(.t) Mȝʿt-kȝ-Rʿ jr.n.s m mnw. 2. s n (j)t.s Jmn ḫt.f pḏ-šs ḥr Jmn 3. Ḏsr-ḏsrw m pr jr.s ʿnḫ.tj)".
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).
Bibliography:
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