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Limestone offering stone

Fragmentary rectangular offering table from mastaba of Bebib, representing mat with bread between two hollow libation basins (compare, for example, Kaaper). // Tavola d'offerta rettangolare, frammentaria, proveniente dalla mastaba di Bebib. Sono raffigurati, in altorilievo, la stuoia con il pane tra due incavi rettangolari, che rappresentano I bacili d'offerta (si veda per esempio quello di Ka-aper).

Details

  • ID
    TUR_S.1871
  • Department
    Museo Egizio, Turin
  • Classification
    Tomb equipment-Offering tables and basins
  • Findspot
    Mastaba of Bebib
  • Material
    Limestone
  • Dimensions
    13 x 97.5 x 45 cm
  • Credit Line
    Museo Egizio, Turin
  • Object Ownership Information
    In the collection of: Museo Egizio, Turin
  • Period
    Old Kingdom
  • Individual - Ancient
    Bebib (Bebib)
  • Object owned by
    Museo Egizio, Turin

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • Bebib

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Published Documents 1

Full Bibliography

  • Curto, Silvio. Gli Scavi Italiani a el-Ghiza (1903). Rome: Centro Per Le Antichitá E La Storia Dell'Arte del Vicino Oriente, 1993, p. 72, fig. 23.

    Habachi, Labib, Tavole d'offerta, are e bacili da libagione, n. 22001-22067, Edizioni d'Arte Fratelli Pozzo, Torino, 1977, CGT 22009, p. 20, (p. 127)

    Mostafa, Maha Farid, Untersuchungen zu Opfertafeln im Alten Reich, -, Gerstenberg, Hildesheim, 1982, p. 130

People 1

Ancient People

  • Bebib (Bebib)

    • Type Individual - Ancient
    • Remarks Owner of Bebib (unnumbered mastaba excavated by Schiaparelli). Lintel (Turin S.1864) and drum lintel inscribed for Bebib, identified as [sAb aD-mr nj-nst-xntt jmj-r sSw] judge and administrator, preeminent of place, overseer of scribes; found in mastaba of Bebib.

Institutions 1