Alabaster Ointment Jar
This Jar is inscribed with the throne name of Hatshepsut which is Maatkare. The Hieroglyphic inscription translates:
The Good Goddess, Lady of the two Lands, Maatkare, may she live! Beloved of Amun who is in Djeser-djeseru.
Discovered in foundation deposit 3 (c) in the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir El-Bahari in west Thebes (Luxor), Egypt. Dates back to the joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, The 18th Dynasty, The New Kingdom Period (1479-1458 BC). Displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, United States.
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