Foundation deposit
amulet
ebony
Wooden (ebony) tjes-knot amulet with incised prenomen of Hatshepsut on the front side. Length 12.1cm.
Excavated by the H.E. Winlock (Metropolitan Museum of Art) in the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari (deposit B, group A) 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- Weinstein, James Morris, Foundation Deposits in Ancient Egypt, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania 1973
- 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