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Offering Table

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Description

<p>This table is carved in relief and has a spout at the back. Customary offerings of food and drink cover the whole table except the rim; in the center are a goose and a bowl, while on the left and right are two round loaves and a tall water pot.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.136' rel='external'>Offering Table</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Photograph of a heavy rectangular Egyptian stone offering table/stand with a central raised cylindrical element and carved low-relief patterns on its surface.

The image shows a dark, block-like rectangular object with a slightly tapered/stepped top and a central vertical raised cylindrical element. The main top surface has shallow, incised/low-relief decoration: a border-like band around the perimeter and an array of recessed round/oval areas and circular/loop motifs within the interior, resembling basin/dish depressions or decorative elements. Along the left and right edges are dense lines of incised hieroglyphs arranged in registers, with additional sign groups near the bottom border. The overall style suggests an inscribed offering-table surface. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.

religious unknown (likely Pharaonic Egyptian; specific dynasty reign unclear) good
Materials dark stone (consistent with black granite; exact material not independently confirmable from photo)
Signs incised hieroglyphic sign groups (multiple types; exact reading unclear) ×40
Visible text "Hieroglyphs are present along the left and right edges and along the lower border, but the individual sign sequence is too unclear/resolution-limited to quote an accurate excerpt."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1

English description

[On the rim and front] To be recited: take to yourself this your libation (of cool water), Osiris, the foremost of the Westerners, (all good things) on which the great gods live, in the 'House of the Phoenix,' in Heliopolis. To be recited: take to yourself this your libation (of cool water), Osiris, lord of the Westerners, who comes from Yeb (Elephantine), and who originates in the earth in Heliopolis. To the Osiris, the prophet-priest of Khnum, Iry-nufer...son of a man with the same titles, Y-r-wa, born of Te-shep, the blessed.

Cross-references (2)

  • Walters-AccNum 22.136 tier-2
  • Walters-id 5233 tier-2

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  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Walters Art Museum (Egyptian).
  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.