Offering table
30 BC–AD 337
Slab-like offering tables were made for use in the funerary cult beginning in the Old Kingdom to supply the dead symbolically with food and drink. Often basins were cut in the surface to catch the liquid poured over the table. Here the channel, which terminates in a spout, surrounds the decorated field with a depiction of bread and vessels on a narrow mat.
Slab-like offering tables were made for use in the funerary cult beginning in the Old Kingdom to supply the dead symbolically with food and drink. Often basins were cut in the surface to catch the liquid poured over the table. Here the channel, which terminates in a spout, surrounds the decorated field with a depiction of bread and vessels on a narrow mat.
Time:
30 BC–AD 337
Object Name
Offering table
Culture
Ägyptisch
Location of discovery:
Fundort unbekannt
Material/technology:
Limestone
Dimensions:
H 18,8 cm, B 16,5 cm, T 3,5 cm, G 1,8 kg
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Ägyptisch - Orientalische Sammlung
Invs.
Ägyptische Sammlung, INV 207
Provenance
Old holding
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