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Description : Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A rectangular funerary offering table with a central relief, hand-carved from a large slab of limestone. The body features a pair of low relief hes-vases with inverted piriform bodies and projecting discoid rims, and a central orb is perhaps indicative of an offering bowl. A narrow channel is carved at the top of the perimeter. The perimeter and lower body are presented with a lengthy hieroglyphic inscription that when translated reads, God's father, prophet, Hem-Ka priest…prophet of…, prophet Montu?, god's father, prophet of…, Isis the great, prophet of Re-Horakhty…Min-Horus…, lady of the town of Tep-Ihu, giving bread, beer, oxen, fowl, wine, milk and every good and pure thing…Overseer of prophets, Pa-Wab. Hes-vases were used in purification, libation, and offering rituals - the hes-vase hieroglyph translates as praise or to favor - and their likeness in this example suggests this table was used for offerings of precious oils or other liquids. Size: 10.25 W x 14.75 H (26 cm x 37.5 cm) For an example of a hes-vase with a strikingly similar profile as those in the central relief, please see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 35.3.24. A stylistically similar example of an offering table, of a slightly larger form and from the Middle Kingdom period, hammered for $50,000 at Christie's, New York Antiquities auction (sale 2007, June 4, 2008, lot 3). Provenance: private J.H. collection, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, ex-Explorer Ancient Art, New York, USA, ex-Royal-Athena Gallery, New York, USA and London, UK, ex-private UN diplomat P.A. collection, purchased in Egypt in the 1970s All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #149648
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