Small find
name stone
23.5 cm
35.0 cm
limestone
Name stone with the cartouche of Hatshepsut and hieratic inscription to the left of cartouche: "2nd month of Akhet, day 10, Steward of Amun, Sen-en-mut" (ȝbd 2 ȝḫ.t sw 10 n jmj-r pr n Jmn Sn-n-mw.t).
Donated by George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, in 1913.
Museum object
Bibliography:
- Dorman, Peter F., The Monuments of Senenmut: Problems in Historical Methodology, London, New York 1988, 205
- Hall, H.R., Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stelae in the British Museum V, London 1914, Pl(s). 28
- Meyer, Christine, Senenmut: Eine prosopographische Untersuchung, Hamburger Ägyptologische Studien 2, Hamburg 1982, 258
- Parkinson, R., Cracking Codes. The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment, Berkeley, Los Angeles 1999, 66 (bibliographic details)
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 424
- Reeves, Nicholas, Taylor, John H., Howard Carter Before Tutankhamun, London 1992, 95
- Robins, Gay, Reflections of Women in the New Kingdom: Ancient Egyptian Art from the British Museum, San Antonio, Tx 1995, no. 23
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- Strudwick, Nigel, The Legacy of Lord Carnarvon, Wyoming 2001, 25–26 [5]