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 Son of Ra, Amun Khenemet, 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 sȝ Rʿ Jmn ẖnm.t 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 two columns topped with pt-sign:
"Daughter of Ra, Hatshepsut, 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 (1.sȝ.t Rʿ ḥȝt-šps.(w)t jr.n.s m mnw. 2. s n it.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:
- Weinstein, James Morris, Foundation Deposits in Ancient Egypt, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania 1973, 159-160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
- 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, 85