Foundation deposit
stone vessel
14.3cm
travertine
Travertine vase. Traces of ointment are visible inside. Flat base, ledged rim and cylindrical body. On the body there is a hieroglyphic inscription, originally filled with blue paint (2 columns, topped with pt-sign):
Good Goddess, Lady of the Two Lands, Maat-ka-Ra, may she live, beloved of Amun of Djeser-djeseru (1.nṯr.t nfr(.t) nb.t tȝ.wj Mȝʿt-kʿ-Rʿ ʿnḫ.tj 2. mrjj.t Jmn m Ḏsr-ḏsrw).
Excavated by the H.E. Winlock (Metropolitan Museum of Art) in the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari in 1923-1924. Gained by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1925 in the division of finds (Rogers Fund).
Museum object
Bibliography:
- Weinstein, James Morris, Foundation Deposits in Ancient Egypt, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania 1973, 158-159
- Porter, Bertha, Moss, Rosalind L.B., Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 368-369
- 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, 149
- Hayes, William C., The Scepter of Egypt: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, The Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom, Cambridge, Mass. 1959, 85, Fig(s). 47
- Serpico, M, The Contents of Jars in Hatshepsut’s Foundation Deposit at Deir el-Bahri and their Significance for Trade, in: Buckingham, Sarah, Aston, David A., Gallorini, Carla, Bader, Bettina, Nicholson, Paul, D. Aston, B. Bader, C. P. Nicholson, S. (Eds), Under the Potter’s Tree. Studies on Ancient Egypt Presented to Janine Bourriau on the Occasion of her 70th Birthday, Leuven, Paris, Walpole, MA 2011, 846, 851-852, 855, 867, 871