Offering Table
E7093
Location: On Display in the Africa Galleries
From: Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery
Curatorial Section: Egyptian
| Object Number | E7093 |
| Current Location | Africa Galleries - On Display |
| Culture | Meroitic |
| Provenience | Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery |
| Locus | G |
| Period | Meroitic |
| Date Made | 100 BCE–300 CE |
| Section | Egyptian |
| Materials | Sandstone |
| Inscription Language | Meroitic Language |
| Description | A common architectural feature in an Egyptian tomb was an offering table decorated with images of foodstuffs as well as offering prayers that could magically serve as a substitute for real food needed by the deceased in the afterlife. These funerary ideas were also adopted in Nubia. The inscription here is in Meroitic, an ancient Nubian language that is only partially readable. |
| Height | 8.5 cm |
| Width | 22.2 cm |
| Depth | 27 cm |
| Credit Line | The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Nubia, Karanog, Aniba Cemetery; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1908 |
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