Small find
stone vessel
34.5cm
calcite
Calcite jar of Hatshepsut with narrowing simple rim, short arms, rounded body with two small handles at the maximum body diameter and flat base. On the top the lid is preserved. It was a container of capacity 24.5 hin. Decorated on the body with incised hieroglyphic inscription in square field and hieratic note in ink below. Names of Hatshepsut are untouched, but the name of Amun was erased. Probably brought from Thebes during the foundation of the city.
Found by J.D.S. Pendlebury during the excavations 1931-1932.
Museum object
From the Royal Estate, Royal Magazines (P.42.2).
Bibliography:
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings IV. Lower and Middle Egypt: Delta and Cairo to Asyûṭ, Oxford 1934, 199
- Pendlebury, J.D.S., Preliminary Report of the Excavations at Tell el-'Amarnah, 1931-2, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology XVIII.3-4, 1932, 148, Pl(s). XIX.3
- Pendlebury, J.D.S., The City of Akhenaten III: The Central City and the Official Quarters. The Excavations at Tell el-Amarna during the Seasons 1926-1927 and 1931-1936, Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Society 44, London 1951, 92, Pl(s). LXXIV.8