Foundation deposit
stone vessel
7.8cm
calcite
Small calcite vase with conical body and flat base. There is an inscription in incised hierglyphs, painted black/blue, on the body, arranged in two columns:
1. Good God, Maat-ka-Ra, may she live (nṯr nfr Mȝʿ.t-kȝ-Rʿʿnḫ.tj)
2. Beloved of Amun-Ra, Foremost of Djeser-Djeseru (mrjj.t Jmn-Rʿ ḫntj Ḏsr-ḏsrw)
Excavated by E. Naville (Egypt Exploration Fund) in the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari in 1894-1895.
Museum object
M. Serpico states that this vase can come from purchase and the provenance from Deir el-Bahari Temple is not certain (Serpico 2011: 847).
Bibliography:
- Weinstein, James Morris, Foundation Deposits in Ancient Egypt, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania 1973, 157
- 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
- Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, The funeral furniture of Egypt; Stone and metal vases, London 1937, 5, 17, Pl(s). XII, 133
- Serpico, M, The Contents of Jars in Hatshepsut’s Foundation Deposit at Deir el-Bahri and their Significance for Trade, in: Aston, David A., Bader, Bettina, Nicholson, Paul, Buckingham, Sarah, Gallorini, Carla, 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, 847, 851-852, 856, 868