Foundation deposit
scarab
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo
glazed steatite
Scarab made of green glazed steatite. Type 4[1] - back with marked prothorax and elytra. On the base there is a depiction of sphinx wearing double feather crown, above its paws there is an vertical cartouche with Thutmose III's prenomen. Behind sphinx there is falcon figure with wings strechted in protective gesture. Whole composition is oriented horizontally on the scarab.
Footnotes
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- Weinstein, James Morris, Foundation Deposits in Ancient Egypt, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania 1973, 159-160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: Dorman, Peter F., Galán, José M., Bryan, Betsy 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