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Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Offering Tray
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
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Offering Tray

DepartmentAncient Mediterranean Art
CultureEgyptian
Dateca. 664-30 B.C.
MediumBronze
Dimensionsheight: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm)
width: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)
depth (excluding suspension loop): 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Object number86.138.231
GeographyDescriptionSquare-shaped model of offering tray. At the back of the tray is a kneeling man flanked by two ram's heads wearing solar disks. Before him are five loaves of bread in raised relief. Kneeling falcon deities on each side pour holy water from flasks over the offerings. At each front corner are a standing falcon and a pair of Anubis jackals; a frog covers the projecting channel at front. On the bottom in an illegible inscription.Label TextGroup label with 86.138.207: Bronze figures and objects were an integral part of the temple furnishings used in ancient Egyptian religious ceremonies. The miniature offering tray depicts food offerings to the gods. When a libation was poured over such trays, the liquid was believed to absorb the substance of the images and to convey that essence magically to the divine beneficiary. The figure of a priest carries a tray of offerings on his head. (J. Powers, 2013)ProvenanceBy purchase, the Stark family, Orange, Texas, between 1927 and 1929; by bequest, the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1965; by purchase, the San Antonio Museum of Art with funding from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Willson, 1986Exhibition History"The Egyptian Mummy: Unwrapping the Mystery," Houston Museum of Natural Science, 23 March 1989-17 September 1989
On view
Collections
Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Mummy Trappings
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 305-30 B.C.
Horus wearing a hem-hem crown
Horus wearing a hem-hem crown
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 664-332 B.C.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Relief with Offerings in the Great Temple of Aten
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 1352-1336 B.C.
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Priest with Offering Tray
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 664-30 B.C.
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Funerary Stela for Amenhetpu and Bebi
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 1650-1550 B.C.
Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Canopic Jar with Falcon Head
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 664-332 B.C.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Mummy Mask
Culture: Egyptian
late 1st century B.C.-1st century A.D.
San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection.
Woman with Fantasy Figures
Teodora Blanco Núñez
ca. 1978
San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection.
Tray Depicting Woman with a Rose
Unknown
mid-19th century
Stela of the Official Neni
Stela of the Official Neni
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 1985-1795 BC
Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Coffin Panel Showing a Man in a Papyrus Boat
Culture: Egyptian
305-30 B.C.
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Falcon-headed God
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 712-30 B.C.

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