Charcoal fragment

Foundation deposit, charcoal

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 22.3.261

Provenance

Thebes: West Bank, temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, foundation deposits, deposit B

Description

Material(s) charcoal

Charcoal fragment. Length 3.8cm.

Katarzyna Kapiec

History

Excavated by the H.E. Winlock (Metropolitan Museum of Art) in the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari (deposit B, group C) in 1920-1922. Gained by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1922 in the division of finds (Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness gift).

Bibliography

Weinstein James Morris, Foundation Deposits in Ancient Egypt, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania 1973, 158$
Roehrig Catharine H., The Foundation Deposits of Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple at Deir el-Bahari, in: Dorman Peter F., Bryan Betsy M., Galán José M. (eds.), Occasional Proceedings of the Theban Workshop. Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut. Papers from the Theban Workshop 2010, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 69, Chicago 2014, 150

Project was funded by the National Science Centre Poland granted on the basis of the decision no. DEC-2012/05/N/HS3/01733