Offering table
- Accession Number
- EC377
- Current Location
- In storage
- Object Type
- Religious or cult object, Offering table (ḥtp)
- Material
- Stone/minerals (Sandstone)
- Provenance
- Nubia, Meroe, Tomb 362
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Measurements
- Height: 295mm | Width: 290mm
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Licensing details
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- Description
-
Stone square/hetep shaped offering table from tomb 362 at Meroe. Traces of a Meroitic inscription.
- Bibliography
-
Garstang, John (1911) Meroë, the city of the Ethiopians: being an account of a first season's excavations on the site, 1909–1910. Oxford: Clarendon Press. [p. 77, pl. LIX.4]
- Other Identity
- 362 (written on side in large black ink)
- Previous Owner
- Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Excavation Details
-
Excavated by John Garstang in tomb 362 at Meroe in 1910.
- Acquisition
- Long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
