ClassificationsAncient Egyptian Art

Relief of Offerings

Place CreatedEgypt, Africa

CultureEgyptian

PeriodOld Kingdom, Dynasty 5

Date2435-2306 BCE

MediumLimestone

Credit LineGift of Pyush and Harshna Patel

Object number2012.050.001

Label TextThis relief depicts several tables piled high with funerary offerings and originally would have been found before a depiction of the deceased in the tomb chapel. At the bottom left are vessels containing water, beer, and wine. On top of each table are offerings of vegetables and cuts of beef piled on bread and baskets of fruit. These images were magically animated by prayers and rituals in order to provide the deceased with an endless supply of food for eternity.
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, May 14, 2013 - Present

ProvenanceEx coll. Pyush Patel, United States, purchased from Simon Ohan Simonian, California, July 27, 2010.

Status

On view

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