Foundation deposit
model tool
25.0 cm
5.3 cm
copper alloy or bronze, wood, leather
Model of wooden hoe.
Excavated by E. Naville (Egypt Exploration Fund) in the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari in 1894-1895.
Museum object
Bibliography:
- 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
- Weinstein, James Morris, Foundation Deposits in Ancient Egypt, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania 1973, 156
- Porter, Bertha, Moss, Rosalind L.B., Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 369
- Hölscher, Uvo, The Excavation of Medinet Habu. II. The Temple of the XVIIIth Dynasty, Oriental Institute Publications 41, Chicago 1939, 89, Fig(s). 76
- Kaiser, Werner, Ägyptisches Museum Berlin, Berlin 1967, 58-59, Fig(s). 632
- Sethe, Kurt, Urkunden der 18. Dynastie bearbeitet und übersetzt, Leipzig 1914, 380–381
- Ausführliches Verzeichnis der ägyptischen Altertürmer und Gipsabgüsse, Berlin 1899, 125
- Roeder, Günther, Aegyptische Inschriften aus den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. Zweiter Band. Inschriften des Neuen Reichs, Indizes zum Band 1 und 2, Leipzig 1924, 265