EGYPTIAN TABLE FOR OFFERINGS WITH TL
Description: Egyptian terracotta table for votive offerings displaying on its surface a back quarter of beef, four loaves of bread and two sets of strips that could be beef ribs or perhaps lettuce, according to different interpretations.The offering table, in most cases made from stone, was placed in the chapels of tombs to be used both by the family and by funerary priests. These made offerings in these spaces of wheat, barley and dates and also poured liquids in libation rituals. This explains the runoff channel that can be seen coming from the rectangle in the centre of the piece. In the Middle Kingdom offering tables, like this one, were developed which were made of terracotta, a not very resistant material. These were place in tombs to form part of the grave goods. This would lead us to believe that tables like this one they were solely to be placed in the grave, but not to be actually used for libations or offerings in the chapel. Includes thermoluminescence certificate. | Egypt. Middle Kingdom, c. 2050 - 1750 BC
Condition: In a good state of preservation. Intact. Notes: The piece includes authenticity certificate. For reasons of data protection, when the provenance of the pieces is private collections, only the initials of the particular collectors are shown, the complete information of these collections will be delivered to the buyer in the authenticity certificate. |The piece includes Spanish Export License ( Passport for European Union) - If the piece is destined outside the European Union a substitution of the export permit should be requested and an export fee must be paid ( see terms and conditions ). This process could take between 1 and 2 months.
Provenance: From a private collection of more than 1,200 items, of a professional Egyptologist from Scandinavia. The collection was formed over the space of the last 40 years. The piece was originally obtained after its removal from the catalogue of a museum in the USA, where it had the inventory number 0389-2255. Dimensions: 33,00 cm.
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Description: Egyptian terracotta table for votive offerings displaying on its surface a back quarter of beef, four loaves of bread and two sets of strips that could be beef ribs or perhaps lettuce, according to different interpretations.The offering table, in most cases made from stone, was placed in the chapels of tombs to be used both by the family and by funerary priests. These made offerings in these spaces of wheat, barley and dates and also poured liquids in libation rituals. This explains the runoff channel that can be seen coming from the rectangle in the centre of the piece. In the Middle Kingdom offering tables, like this one, were developed which were made of terracotta, a not very resistant material. These were place in tombs to form part of the grave goods. This would lead us to believe that tables like this one they were solely to be placed in the grave, but not to be actually used for libations or offerings in the chapel. Includes thermoluminescence certificate. | Egypt. Middle Kingdom, c. 2050 - 1750 BC
Condition: In a good state of preservation. Intact. Notes: The piece includes authenticity certificate. For reasons of data protection, when the provenance of the pieces is private collections, only the initials of the particular collectors are shown, the complete information of these collections will be delivered to the buyer in the authenticity certificate. |The piece includes Spanish Export License ( Passport for European Union) - If the piece is destined outside the European Union a substitution of the export permit should be requested and an export fee must be paid ( see terms and conditions ). This process could take between 1 and 2 months.
Provenance: From a private collection of more than 1,200 items, of a professional Egyptologist from Scandinavia. The collection was formed over the space of the last 40 years. The piece was originally obtained after its removal from the catalogue of a museum in the USA, where it had the inventory number 0389-2255. Dimensions: 33,00 cm.
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