Foundation deposit
model tool
9,5cm
5.0cm
wood
Model wooden rocker. The two moving sides are of thin wood in shape of rockers and are connected by seven wooden bars which pierce through the sides. Length 22 cm. Two almost the same inscriptions - different notation of the temple name - according to Seelers[1]:
1. Good God Maat-ka-Ra, beloved of Amun of Djeser-djeseru (nṯr nfr Mȝʿ.t-kȝ-Rʿ mrjj Jmn m Ḏsr-ḏsrw)
2. Good God [...] beloved of Amun of Djeser-djeseru (nṯr nfr [...] mrjj Jmn m Ḏsr-ḏsrw)
Footnotes
- ^ 1044: Recueil des inscriptions égyptiennes des Musées royaux du Cinquantenaire à Bruxelles - - 1923 - Seelers, Louis.
Excavated by E. Naville (Egypt Exploration Fund) in the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari in 1894-1895.
Museum object
See also Egyptian Global Museum.
Bibliography:
- Weinstein, James Morris, Foundation Deposits in Ancient Egypt, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania 1973, 156-157
- Seelers, Louis, Recueil des inscriptions égyptiennes des Musées royaux du Cinquantenaire à Bruxelles, Bruxelles 1923, 36 [122] (quoted as E543)
- Naville, Edouard, The Temple of Deir el-Bahari. Part VI. The Lower Terrace, Additions and Plans, Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund 29, London 1908, 9
- Porter, Bertha, Moss, Rosalind L.B., Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 368 (quoted as E543)
- Roehrig, Catharine H., The Foundation Deposits of Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple at Deir el-Bahari, in: Dorman, Peter F., Bryan, Betsy M., Galán, José M., Occasional Proceedings of the Theban Workshop. Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut. Papers from the Theban Workshop 2010, Chicago 2014, 148-149, Fig(s). 8.11
- Capart, Jean, Nouvelles acquisitions, Bulletin des Musées Royaux des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels à Bruxelles 3.10, 1904, 90 [6]