Model rocker
Foundation deposit, model tool
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 25.3.105
Provenance
Description
Material(s) wood
Wooden model tool. The two moving sides are of thin wood in shape of rockers and are connected by eight wooden bars which pierce through the sides. Uninscribed. Length 18.5cm.
Katarzyna Kapiec
History
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).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- Weinstein James Morris, Foundation Deposits in Ancient Egypt, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania 1973, 158-159$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., 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, 149
- Winlock Herbert Eustis, Excavations at Deir el-Bahri 1911-1931, New York 1942, 89