Foundation deposit
stone vessel
calcite
Calcite bowl with simple rim, hemispherical body and rounded base. Inside, just by the rim, there is an inscription around: "Living 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 like Ra for eternity (ʿnḫ sȝ Rʿ ẖnm.t jr.n.s m mnw. s n (j)t.s Jmn ḫt.f pḏ-šs ḥr Jmn Ḏsr-ḏsrw m pr jr.s ʿnḫ.tj mj Rʿ ḏ.t)".
Excavated by H. Carter and Carnarvon in 1909-1911. Purchased and donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Edward S. Harkness in 1926.
Museum object
Bibliography:
- Weinstein, James Morris, Foundation Deposits in Ancient Egypt, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania 1973, 161-162
- 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, 151