pebble
calcite pebble
Deir el-Bahari
British Museum
calcite
Calcite pebble from a foundation deposit of Kheneket-ankh, inscribed with columns of hieroglyphs regarding Thutmose III surveying the foundations of his temple.
Urk. IV, 885.5–7
Hatshepsut/Thutmose III
Egyptian antiquities
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA18194
7.6 cm
10.2 cm
Bibliography:
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings I. Theban Necropolis. Part 2. Royal Tombs and Smaller Cemeteries, 2nd ed., London 1964, 427
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- Spiegelberg, Wilhelm, Varia, Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l'archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes XIX, 1897, 87