Foundation deposit
basketry
3.3cm
rush
Model sieve made of rush. The inner part is made of fine grass blades in twining technique, while the outer part is made in coiling technique with a passive bundle. Very good state of preservation. Diameter 20.5cm.
Excavated by the H.E. Winlock (Metropolitan Museum of Art) in the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari (south-eastern corner of deposit B, group B) in 1920-1922. Gained by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1922 in the division of finds (Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness gift).
Museum object
Bibliography:
- Weinstein, James Morris, Foundation Deposits in Ancient Egypt, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania 1973, 158
- 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, Fig(s). 47
- Winlock, Herbert Eustis, Excavations at Deir el-Bahri 1911-1931, New York 1942, 89, Pl(s). 42