Foundation deposit
amulet
5.4cm
cedar
Cedar tjes-knot amulet with incised inscriptions - cartouches with prenomen (top) and full nomen (bottom) of Hatshepsut. Length is 15.2cm, thickness 1.8cm.
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- Weinstein, James Morris, Foundation Deposits in Ancient Egypt, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania 1973, 159-160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
- Roehrig, Catharine H., Foundation deposits for the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, in: Keller, Cathleen A., Roehrig, Catharine H., Dreyfus, Renée, Hatshepsut. From Queen to Pharaoh, New Haven, London 2005, 145, Fig(s). 76j
- 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, 86,88, Fig(s). 47