Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry

Offering Table

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Accession: 37.58E
Find spot: Saqqara, Egypt approx. site location
Period: early Dynastic Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 2 (probably)
Date: ca. 2800–2675 B.C.E.
Date range: 2800 BCE – 2675 BCE
Materials: ['Anorthosite gneiss']
Height: 12.2 cm
Width: 37.0 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Offering Table (37.58E). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/38270

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Description

Object Label: A carver created the thin top and conical base of this offering table out of one piece of very hard stone. The base was hollowed out with a drill. Tables like this one held food or other substances as offerings to a god or a deceased person. Caption: Offering Table, ca. 2800–2675 B.C.E.. Anorthosite gneiss, 4 13/16 x greatest diam. 14 9/16 in. (12.2 x 37 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.58E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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Found at Saqqara

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.58E tier-2
BKM-Object 3954 tier-2

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