Offering Table
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Jan 1959
name: label: Donor Name
content: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
label: Site Name
content: Lisht
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "From Lisht, North Pyramid, XX Dyn., Museum Excavations, limestone."
label: Notes
content: The central sign is the glyph for offering.
label: Notes
content: From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Offering table, 664-525 BC. Pouring water over these images of bread and beer jars transformed them into real food for gods and the dead. The tray itself is in the shape of the hieroglyph hetep, which meant offering.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Egyptian, New Kingdom Period, Dynasty XX
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 223500
label: USNM Number
content: A422995-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Table