Offering Table

Object Number:

E7091

Current Location:

Collections storage

Culture:

Meroitic

Provenience:

Egypt
Nubia
Aniba

Locus:

Section:

Egyptian

Materials:

Sandstone
Pigment

Description:

Offering table with wide margins incribed with Meroitic script. There is a channel for overflow. Central area has 4 loaves of bread and 2 libation vases with intermingling flowing water which then splits to feed two ankhs.

Credit Line:

Coxe Expedition to Nubia, Karanog, Aniba Cemetery

Bibliography:

[Book] Woolley, C. Leonard; D. Randall-Maciver. 1910. Karanog; the Romano-Nubian Cemetery (plates). Eckley B. Coxe Junior Expedition to Nubia, Vol. IV. : Page/Fig./Plate: plate 16

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