Offering Table

ca. 1280-1220 BCE (New Kingdom)

32.5 cm 31 cm 5.2 cm

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The offering table was an essential element of the funerary cult and was usually placed near the deceased's tomb in an offering niche or chapel. If the cult ceased to function, the carved images of food and drink on the table served as magical substitutes, thus insuring the su...

Sculpture

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621
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1931, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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Ramesside
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