offering-table;
amulet(?);
votive offering;
model(`)
- Museum number
- EA27586
- Description
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Solid-cast copper alloy model offering-table, maybe offered as a votive offering or used as amulet; rectangular in shape with central projecting channel in front and two figures of a couchant lion or cat (?) in two back corners; frog sits astride a central channel; two suspension loops welded at the back; complete and relatively well preserved.
- Production date
- 4thC BC - 2ndC BC (possibly)
- Dimensions
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Height: 1.90 centimetres (max)
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Length: 6.20 centimetres
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Width: 4.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- This miniature offering tray finds very close parallels from Saqqara which are dated to the 4th-2nd century BC. To the contrary of various examples, no food offering is visible on the top of the offering tray.
Other parallels from the British Museum, but with a kneeling priest figure on one side of tray, opposite to the frog figure: BM 1937,1125.1 and BM 1971,0123.7.
On offering trays, see particularly:
Green, C. I. 1987, The Temple furniture from the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqâra 1964-1976 (Egypt Exploration Society Memoirs 53), London, 116-120, no. 447-464.
Teeter, E. 1994, 'Bronze votive offering tables', in D.P. Silverman, For his ka: Essays offered in memory of Klaus Baer, Chicago, 255-65.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair, though bit corroded
- Acquisition date
- 1885
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA27586
- Registration number
- 1885,1101.86
