Offering Tray
Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker
Middle Kingdom, late Dynasty 11 (about 2000 BCE)
Nile silt pottery; straw temper, some red wash.
Overall: 3 1/8 × 10 5/8 × 8 3/4 in. (8 × 27 × 22.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
39.64.6719
Geography
Place Made: Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa
Period
2000-1000 BCE
Object Name
Funerary Equipment
Research Area
Ancient Egypt
Africa
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 12.5, Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Virginia Herrmann, Winter 2014
ANTH 12.5, Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Virginia Herrmann, Winter 2014
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
Exhibition History
Egyptian Antiquities at Dartmouth, Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12, 2011-August 13, 2012.
Provenance
British School of Archaeology in Egypt (Univeristy College, London); Museum and Art Gallery Reading, England; sold to present collection, 1939.
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