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Offering table

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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

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