BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS 359the obsidian found in Upper Egypt came from mines situated less than 250 km from Porc Epic, in the Ethiopian Rift Valley. The provenance of the obsidian as supported by this study together with chemical data from Eritrean obsidian permits to conclude that overland exchange routes through the Gash Delta are more likely than maritime routes involving the Red Sea and the coast of Eritrea and the Arabian Peninsula. Exchange would thus follow a 'down-the-line' model, whose links would include the Gash Delta and the Nubian A-Group, although the number of obsidian samples excavated between Ethiopia and Egypt is currently too low to arrive at reliable conclusions.
Primary publication of the canopic box of Ns-‘3-rwd, perhaps from Thebes, dating to the late Twenty-fifth/early Twenty-sixth Dynasties. No exact parallels exist for the texts on this box, which bears some unique epithets and unusual extensive formulations for the four protective goddesses, invoking a close relationship with Osiris and Horus, especially for Isis and Neith. The box's owner, title, family, and status, as well as textual parallels for deities' titles and epithets, are discussed.
This paper explores 32 inscribed objects from foundation deposits of the Temple of Thutmose III, Djeserakhet, at Deir el-Bahari. They contain ointment jars, chisels, saws, axes, surveyor’s stakes, ‘Opening of the Mouth’ adzes, a grinder, and a model of a rocker. They are kept at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the museum database records that they were found at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna; however, the method of acquisition is unknown. This paper evaluates these pieces of information in light of the inscriptions on these objects and other objects from foundation deposits for the same king from the same site, Djeserakhet (which are scattered in different museums around the world), to reconstruct their archaeological context. This paper also notes the current museum inventory numbers of these objects to create a network of the entire group. It closely scrutinizes these objects, their inscriptions, the techniques used for engraving them, and the addressed deity.
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