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Lotus pendant amulet with flat back and perforated through top. Moulded on front with pendant lotus flower of three petals - trefoil pendant. From North Court, through which was causeway to Tuthmosis III temple.
Amulet, lotus pendant
The base is undecorated on the exterior, but on the bottom of the interior is painted a full-length figure of the goddess, Nut. She is depicted wearing a long dress, wig, collar, armlets and anklets with her breasts bared.
Coffin base of Tenkhaykhetes
Wooden anthropoid coffin
Coffin of Tenkhaykhetes
Hathor cow votive figurine, crudely modelled in reddish-brown ware pottery, coated with red slip or paint. Complete, some damage to legs and one ear/horn. Eyes indicated by round blobs of clay attached to head before firing. Either an offering on its own, or may have been an ornament on the edge of a pottery vessel. From North Court, through which was causeway to Tuthmosis III temple.
Cow figurine
Votive Hathor cow's head with horns and sun disk crudely modelled in reddish-brown pottery, coated with red slip or paint and with remains of white paint. Damage to neck, horns and face. Either an offering on its own or may have been an ornament on a pottery vessel. From North Court, through which was causeway to Tuthmosis III temple.
Cow head
Detail of a scene painted onto the cartonnage. The middle figure is Osiris while his wife Isis is depicted to his right.
Detail of the mummycase of Takhenmes
Detail of the top of the cartonnage showing painted decoration and funerary inscriptions comprising decorated wig, fillet, a scarab on top of the head and a floral collar.
Detail of the mummycase of Takhenmes
The lid is decorated on the exterior, plastered and painted with a face, wig and fillet, floral collar, with a rising sun on the head and one vertical line of inscription.
Detail of Tenkhaykhetes coffin lid
Detail of a scene painted onto the cartonnage. The god Horus is on the left. Osiris is depicted in the middle of the three seated figures on the platform.
Detail of the mummycase of Takhenmes
Head of Hathor in blue-glazed faience with face moulded in the round on one side with eyes and headdress outlined in dark blue/black paint. The back of the head is not modelled, being plain and slightly curved. Broken, possibly from a small votive imitation sistrum or possibly from the rim of a vessel with Hathor heads. From North Court, through which was causeway to Tuthmosis III temple.
Hathor head
Detail of a painting of the goddess Nut on the inside of the coffin base.
Interior detail of Tenkhaykhetes coffin base
Detail of a painting of the goddess Nut on the inside of the coffin base showing painting on the inner sides of the coffin base.
Interior detail of Tenkhaykhetes coffin sides
Wooden menat counterpoise from a menat or ceremonial necklace, particularly associated with the worship of Hathor and when made in wood usually a votive item. Carved plainly with a disc-shaped end, from which the stem widens to a roughly squared end, which is pierced with two holes. Undecorated.From a votive necklace or an offering on its own.From North Court, through which was causeway to Tuthmosis III temple.
Menat counterpoise
Fragment of menat in blue-glazed faience, inscribed on both sides with black painted inscription, part only surviving. Inscribed: Hwt-hr nb(t) 'Iwnt - Hathor, Lady of Dendereh. From North Court, through which was causeway to Tuthmosis III temple.
Menat fragment
Model stone cradle or rocker with semicircular solid wood sides joined by 7 wooden spars fitted into sides. Model version of a cradle used to move blocks of stone. Inscribed: ntr nfr (M3-k3-R') Imn m dsr dsrw R'mry - 'the good god, Makare, beloved of Amun-Re in the Holy of Holies (Deir el-Bahri temple)'.
Model cradle
Model hoe made of two spars of wood fitted together. Model version of hoe used to dig foundation trenches. Inscribed: ntr nfr (M3-k3-R') Imn hnt dsr dsrw mryt - 'the good god, Makare, beloved of Amun, foremost in the Holy of Holies (Deir el-Bahri temple)'
Model hoe
Full body cartonnage case of Takhenmes. Cartonnage is similar to papier mache.
Mummycase of Takhenmes
Part of a blue-glazed faience plaque, plain on back and with part of black painted inscription on front. Right hand edge preserved, abraded and worn with portions of glaze on front and back lost. Part of vertical line of inscription remaining on front left hand edge, reading right to left: ntr nfr (M3'-k3-R')- the good god, Makare. From North Court, through which was causeway to Tuthmosis III temple.
Plaque of Hatshepsut
Relief preserving the upper part of a male figure wearing a kilt, carved in raised relief. Painted decoration remaining.
Relief block
Relief block, lower part of scene, King led by god. Legs, feet, kilts and linked hands shown. One foot of god damaged. This had been plastered over an underlying portion of painted relief. Carved in raised relief with paint preserved.
Relief block
Large irregular-shaped block of sandstone, carved in raised relief, plastered and painted, comprising lower part of wall scene and preserving lower parts of figures only. Figure of seated god on left, Amun-Re, before heaped table of offerings. On right kneeling figure of king offering wine to god with inscription 'rdit irp'. Figure of Amun-Reerased and later recarved, plastered and painted on cut down surface.
Relief block
Relief fragment with a figure of the king, painted blue.
Relief fragment
Relief fragment of offerings, carved in raised relief, painted.
Relief fragment
Relief fragment of offerings, carved in raised relief, painted.
Relief fragment
Relief fragment with a pattern, carved in raised relief and painted.
Relief fragment
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