d'un ex-voto de fondation d'édifice

14:38 Jun 10, 2017 

That's why I'm unsure, I know what foundation deposits and documents are as well as ex-votos but if you can found a city or temple or museum why not a building, monument, edifice? So in French there's no way to tell other than context?
Thanks everyone!

18:12 Jun 9, 2017 

(from a distinctly medieval and non-Egyptian context) is that an "ex-voto" offering would be "a votive offering to a saint or to a divinity....given in fulfillment of a vow...or in gratitude or devotion."

See the discussion here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-voto

However, all sorts of stuff was buried as part of the "foundation" of a building --particularly a sacred building.

Could this disk be a "simulacrum" (simulacrum")?

Of what?

Of the "disk" of the Sun?

The fact that gold leaf was found *on the tang* of the disk --which would have, presumably, been hidden in the handle-- is certainly quite curious.

Could the whole thing have been covered with gold leaf, which would have made it a rather pricey simulacrum, buried in the foundation of a temple or other sacred structure?