Foundation deposit
model tool
wood
Model wooden adze, length 21.0 cm. Shape resembles the setep instrument used during Opening of the Mouth ritual (known also as meskhetyu instrument). On the handle there is an inscription in incised hieroglyphs: "Good God Maat-ka-Ra, beloved of Amun, Foremost of Djeser-djeseru (nṯr nfr Mȝʿ.t-kȝ-Rʿ mrjj.t Jmn ḫntj Ḏsr-ḏsrw)".
Excavated by E. Naville (Egypt Exploration Fund) in the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari in 1894-1895.
Museum object
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- Weinstein, James Morris, Foundation Deposits in Ancient Egypt, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania 1973, 157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, Tools and weapons illustrated by the Egyptian collection in University College, London, and 2.000 outlines from other sources, British School of Archaeology in Egypt , London 1917, Pl(s). LV, 128
- Porter, Bertha, Moss, Rosalind L.B., Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 368