Offering Table

32-42-749

From: Egypt | Meydum

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number 32-42-749
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Graeco-Roman
Provenience Egypt | Meydum
Locus ANS30 - Tomb of Hor
Date Made 332-30 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Limestone
Iconography Lotus | Papyrus Flower | Cartouche | Bread Loaf | Offering Stand | Offering Table
Description

Limestone Offering table. Uninscribed, but decorated with a symmetical design with two cartouche-shaped water basins, two pair of lotus and papyrus flowers, an offering table, and 4 offering stands and eight round loaves. There is also a channel for liquids around the edge.

Height 35.5 cm
Width 35 cm
Depth 9 cm
Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Meydum; Alan Rowe, 1932
Other Number 31-12-338 - Field No SF | F6 - Other Number

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