Foundation deposit
stone vessel
12.5cm
calcite
Calcite ointment vase and lid. Vase has flat base, ledged rim, cylindrical body and concave neck. Traces of ointment are visible inside. On the body of the vase there is an inscription in incised hieroglyphs, originally filled with blue paint (2 columns topped with pt-sign):
"Good Goddess Maat-ka-Ra, may she live, beloved of Amun-Ra, Lord of the Throne of Two Lands (1. nṯr.t nfr (.t) Mȝʿ.t-kȝ-Rʿ ʿnḫ.tj 2. mrjj.t Jmn-Rʿ nb nst tȝ.wj)".
Excavated by the H.E. Winlock (Metropolitan Museum of Art) in the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari in 1923-1924. Gained by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1925 in the division of finds (Rogers Fund).
Museum object
Bibliography:
- Weinstein, James Morris, Foundation Deposits in Ancient Egypt, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania 1973, 158-159
- Roehrig, Catharine H., The Foundation Deposits of Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple at Deir el-Bahari, in: Dorman, Peter F., Galán, José M., Bryan, Betsy M., Occasional Proceedings of the Theban Workshop. Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut. Papers from the Theban Workshop 2010, Chicago 2014, 146, Fig(s). 8.16
- Winlock, Herbert Eustis, Excavations at Deir el-Bahri 1911-1931, New York 1942, Pl(s). 42
- 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, 85, Fig(s). 47
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II. Theban Temples, 2nd ed., Oxford 1972, 369
- Winlock, Herbert Eustis, Excavations at Deir el-Bahri 1911-1931, New York 1942, 89, Pl(s). 42
- 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, 846, 851-852, 855, 866, 871