WALTERS-EG
Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) · funerary_equipment
Offering Table
Description
<p>This table is carved in relief and has a spout at the back. Customary offerings of food and drink cover the whole table except the rim; in the center are a goose and a bowl, while on the left and right are two round loaves and a tall water pot.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.136' rel='external'>Offering Table</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>
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A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
English description
[On the rim and front] To be recited: take to yourself this your libation (of cool water), Osiris, the foremost of the Westerners, (all good things) on which the great gods live, in the 'House of the Phoenix,' in Heliopolis. To be recited: take to yourself this your libation (of cool water), Osiris, lord of the Westerners, who comes from Yeb (Elephantine), and who originates in the earth in Heliopolis. To the Osiris, the prophet-priest of Khnum, Iry-nufer...son of a man with the same titles, Y-r-wa, born of Te-shep, the blessed.
Cross-references (2)
- Walters-AccNum 22.136 tier-2
- Walters-id 5233 tier-2
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