Lump of Blue Paste
Object type: Fragment, paste, Egyptian Blue ?
Department: Egyptian Art
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Reign: Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III
Date: ca. 1479–1458 B.C.
Medium: Paste
Dimensions: L. 1 × H. 0.6 cm (3/8 × 1/4 in.)
Geography: From    Egypt Upper Egypt, Thebes Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Locale: Tomb of Senenmut (TT 71), below
Locus: burial 2, in box
Excavation: MMA excavations, 1935–36
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1936
Accession year: 1936