(Jerome M. Eisenberg [1930-2022] New York, New York, USA); 1976-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Relief Showing Offerings for the Deceased, between 2450 and 2290 BCE
- Egyptian
Painted limestone
- Framed: Overall: 19 × 15 3/8 × 1 1/8 inches (48.3 × 39.1 × 2.9 cm)
Founders Society Purchase, Hill Memorial Fund
76.5
On View
- Egyptian W160
Department
Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
- Old kingdom
- Limestone
- Food
- Paint
- Relief
- Fragment
- Offerings, votive
- Egypt
- Animals
- Hand (animal or human component)
- Vegetables
- Meat and meat products
- Waterfowl
Details
Provenance
Published References
Bulletin of the DIA 55, no. 1 (1976): p. 37 (ill.). Peck, William H. "Offerings for the Deceased," Bulletin of the DIA 58, no. 2 (1980): pp. 102-108. Vandier, Jacques. "Un don des amis du Louvre au Département des antiquitiés," La Revue du Louvre, 19 (1969): no. 1. Romano, James F. In the Fullness of Time. Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 2002, p.79.
Rights Status
Egyptian, Relief Showing Offerings for the Deceased, between 2450 and 2290 BCE, painted limestone. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Hill Memorial Fund, 76.5.
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