Small find
name stone
13.3 cm
17.5 cm
5.9 cm
limestone
Flat fragment of stone, elaborated with a thick chisel.The lower part is missing. Its decorated surface is concave and traces of 4 layers of decoration incised in stone are visible. The orientation of the signs is rightward. The lowest layer is very slightly legible, some signs seem to form the word mȝʿ. The second layer is the proper layer of the name stone. It contains Hatshepsut’s cartouche Mȝʿ.t-[kȝ]-Rʿ. On the next one it is possible to read the word Wsjr in hieratic, and the second one seems to repeat a cartouche, but only the words Mȝʿ.t and Rʿ were written, as if it became a trial piece after it was broken.
Find
Seen in the Metropolitan House Storeroom no. 1 in Qurna (Luxor) in 2008 and 2009.
