[HatOb_659] Pot stand

Katarzyna Kapiec

Object Category: Foundation deposit

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 95.1420

Object Type: basketry

Width: 19.0cm

Height: 4.0cm

Material: reeds

Material: straw

Pot stand made of straw and reeds, constructed with the use of two-system coiling technique with a passive bundle^[1]. Diameter of the hole in the middle - 2.5cm.

Footnotes

^ Wendrich, Willeke, The World According to Basketry. An Etno-archaeological Interpretation of Basketry Production in Egypt., Cotsen Digital Archaeology Series 2, UCLA 2012, 160, Fig(s). 9-5.

Excavated by E. Naville (Egypt Exploration Fund) in the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari in 1894-1895. Donated to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by the Egypt Exploration Fund.

Collection: Museum object

Bibliography:

Weinstein, James Morris, Foundation Deposits in Ancient Egypt, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania 1973, 156
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
Eggebrecht, Arne, Eggebrecht, Eva, Ägyptens Aufstieg zur Weltmacht, Mainz am Rhein 1987, 154-156

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