offering-table
- Museum number
- EA1227
- Description
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Red granite offering-table inscribed for Harsiese; on the upper surface a hieroglyphic inscription frames two registers of scenes: (1) group of offerings on a mat, including a pair of tall vessels. From the tops of these issue wavy lines representing water, which converge into a single stream running along the notional 'spout' of the offering table. At each side a fecundity figure carries a tray laden with offerings and flowers. (2) a central hieroglyphic inscription in five columns; to the left the deceased in human form receives a libation from a goddess (probably Nut) concealed within a tree; to the right the deceased as a ba bird receives a libation from a similar tree-deity.
- Dimensions
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Height: 16.50 centimetres
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Length: 55 centimetres
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Width: 54 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2005-2006 Oct-Feb, Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, Mummy: The Inside Story
2006 7 Mar-6 Aug, Mobile (Alabama), Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center, Mummy: The Inside Story
2006-2007 6 Oct-18 Feb, Tokyo, National Museum of Nature and Science, Mummy: The Inside Story
2007 17 Mar-17 Jun, Kobe City Museum, Mummy: The Inside Story
19th Nov 2011- 11 Mar 2012. Richmond , VA, Virginia museum of Fine Art. Mummy. The inside story.
Mar - Oct 2012. Brisbane, Queensland Museum South Bank. Mummy: The Inside Story
2012/3, Nov-Apr, Mumbai, CSMVS, Mummy: The Inside Story
2013, Apr-Nov, Singapore, ArtScience Museum, Mummy: The Inside Story
- Condition
- fair
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA1227
- Registration number
- 1897,0511.215
