Offering table

Offering table

The offering tables in stone were supposed to transform, through magic, the food and drink carved on them into real sustenance, to be used as daily meal. On this table there are aligned round breads and libation vases, next to stylized lotus flowers. There are inscriptions in Meroitic language all around the piece. There are traces on the surface of the original polychromy in red and yellow.

Present location MUSEO ARQUEOLÓGICO NACIONAL [21/007] MADRID

Inventory number 1980/98/252

Dating MEROITIC PERIOD

Archaeological Site MASMAS:-NAG`GAMUS

Category OFFERING TABLE (Htp)

Material SANDSTONE

Technique HEWN

Width 39.5 cm

Bibliography

PEREZ - DIE, Mª C., Egipto. Guía didáctica del Museo Arqueológico Nacional. I, 1985, P. 61.

PEREZ - DIE, Mª C., Egipto y Próximo Oriente. Guía general del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, 1966, P. 111, 1992.

ALMAGRO BASCH, M.; ALMAGRO GORBEA, Mª J.; PEREZ - DIE, Mª C., Arte Faraónico. Exposición, 1975, P. 282 Nº 209.

ALMAGRO BASCH, M., La necrópolis meroítica de Nag Gamús. (Masmás. Nubia egipcia), Memorias de la Misión Arqueológica Española en Nubia, VIII, 1965, Pp. 74-75 Lám. XXIII, 1.

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