Offering Tray, Pottery
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Jan 1959
name: label: Donor Name
content: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
label: Site Name
content: Deir El-Bahri (Deir el-Bahari)
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "From Thebes, Deir el Bahri, Tomb 110; XI Dynasty, Museum Excavations, 1926-7. Rough light redware. Exhibit, Hall 26, 1976."
label: Notes
content: Has food models applied to surface: leeks, bread, beef haunch, glyph for offering >hetep.
label: Notes
content: From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Offering tray, 1800-1400 BC. Bread and leeks represented on this tray were meant to provide food for the deceased. The curved calf leg hieroglyph symbolized strength, and the instrument on the right opened the mouth so the dead could speak and eat again.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Egyptian, Middle Kingdom Period, Dynasty XI
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 223500
label: USNM Number
content: A423001-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tray