Pottery bowl
Dom palm fruits
Height: 15.500 cm
Width:
17.500 cm (max.)
Gift of the
EA 30942;EA 35939;EA 35952
Ancient Egypt and Sudan
Pottery bowl containing dom palm fruits
From Thebes, Egypt
New
Kingdom, around 1500 BC
A favourite food to take to the Afterlife
The fruit of the dom palm was among the commonest foods enjoyed by the ancient Egyptians. These examples, in a pottery bowl, were probably placed in a tomb as offerings for the dead. In addition to its role of providing sustenance, the fruit of the dom also seems to have had a further significance as providing water and new life, an additional reason for placing it in the tomb.
H. Wilson, Egyptian food and drink (Aylesbury, Shire Publications, 1988)
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