Vase

Foundation deposit, stone vessel

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 25.3.48a

Provenance

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

Description

Dimensions Height 14.3cm

Material(s) travertine

Travertine vase. Traces of ointment are visible inside. Flat base, ledged rim and cylindrical body. On the body there is a hieroglyphic inscription, originally filled with blue paint (2 columns, topped with pt-sign):

Good Goddess, Lady of the Two Lands, Maat-ka-Ra, may she live, beloved of Amun of Djeser-djeseru (1.nṯr.t nfr(.t) nb.t tȝ.wj Mȝʿt-kʿ-Rʿ ʿnḫ.tj 2. mrjj.t Jmn m Ḏ​sr-ḏsrw).

Katarzyna Kapiec

History

Bibliography

• Weinstein James Morris, Foundation Deposits in Ancient Egypt, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania 1973, 158-159$
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• 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. 47
• 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, Gallorini Carla, Nicholson Paul, Buckingham Sarah (ed.), 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, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 204, Leuven, Paris, Walpole, MA 2011, 846, 851-852, 855, 867, 871