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Offering Table of Tjaenhesret, priest of Thoth, son of Iaa

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Description

Offering Table, Tjaenhesret. Ptolemaic Period, 332–30 B.C. Limestone. H. 39.5 cm (15 9/16 in.); W. 35.3 cm (13 7/8 in.); D. 5.8 cm (2 5/16in.). Probably from: Hermopolis (Ashmunein; Khemenu), Middle Egypt. Subject: Men, Hieroglyphs. Credit: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Limestone offering-tablet shape block covered frontally with incised Egyptian hieroglyphs and a central relief scene of a kneeling offering figure before an enthroned deity.

The object appears as a rectangular limestone offering-tablet/block with a raised, thicker top element. The front face is densely filled with incised hieroglyphic text in multiple horizontal lines flanking and surrounding a central relief. In the middle, a human figure kneels at left with arms extended toward offerings; at right is an enthroned seated figure representing a deity, identifiable only generally by its iconic seated posture. Between/around them are hieroglyphs and small offering-related elements. No royal cartouche is clearly legible in the provided image. The style and script strongly suggest an offering/ritual text-table, consistent with an epigraphic dedication to a priest and a god, though the specific names (e.g., Tjaenhesret) and divine name (Thoth) cannot be read with certainty from this image resolution.

religious Ptolemaic Period (catalogue ground truth; not decisively confirmable from image alone) good
Deities unknown (central seated deity figure; catalogue claims Thoth)
Materials limestone
Signs incised hieroglyphic text lines (undetermined specific signs) ×200
Visible text "Hieroglyphic lines are visible across the surface, but the individual signs are not sufficiently legible at this image resolution to quote an accurate excerpt."

Connections

Found at Hermopolis
Deities Thoth
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116256514 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 48.149.5 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 550781 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
  • Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.