Foundation deposit
scarab
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Scarab with an inscription on the base containing cartouche with prenomen of Hatshepsut and epithet "Lord of Two Lands". Caroutche is flanked from both sides with spiral-floral motive. Whole composition is oriented vertically on the scarab.
Excavated by the H.E. Winlock (Metropolitan Museum of Art) in the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari in 1926-1927.
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- Weinstein, James Morris, Foundation Deposits in Ancient Egypt, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania 1973, 159-160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: Bryan, Betsy M., Dorman, Peter F., 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, 88
- Winlock, Herbert Eustis, Excavations at Deir el-Bahri 1911-1931, New York 1942, 132-135