Offering Table
ca. 2800-2675 B.C.E.
Maker Unknown
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
A carver created the thin top and conical base of this offering table out of one piece of very hard stone. The base was hollowed out with a drill. Tables like this one held food or other substances as offerings to a god or a deceased person.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Funerary Object
- Formatted Medium
- Anorthosite gneiss
- Medium
- anorthosite, gneiss
- Locations
- Reportedly from: Saqqara, Egypt
- Dynasty
- Dynasty 2 (probably)
- Period
- early Dynastic Period
- Dimensions
- 4 13/16 x greatest diam. 14 9/16 in. (12.2 x 37 cm)
- Accession Number
- 37.58E
- Credit Line
- Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
- Exhibitions
- Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Ancient Egyptian Art
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- Pre-Dynastic, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
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