Offering Tray
Culture: Egyptian
Period: Late Period-Ptolemaic Period
Date: ca. 664-30 B.C.
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions:
height: 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 Line: Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Object number: 86.138.231
Provenance: By 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, 1986
Label Text
Group 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)
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)
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