Relief of Offering Table
Description
Object Label: This relief comes originally from a Middle Kingdom tomb. It depicts a typical offering table of reeds, the hieroglyphic writing of the word for “field,” the source of food offerings. It is also stocked with an ox head, fish, bread, onions, and other food for use in the afterlife. The inscription, carved nearly a thousand years after the relief, is evidence of reuse of the tomb. The new inscription claims the tomb for the priest inspector of fields Soker-senebef born of the lector priest Imes. Catalogue description: Culture Egyptian Caption: Egyptian. Relief of Offering Table, ca. 2008–1630 B.C.E. and ca.760–656 B.C.E.. Limestone, 20 3/4 x 16 1/2 x 1 3/4 in., 32.5 lb. (52.7 x 41.9 x 4.4 cm, 14.74kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1355E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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.
A carved limestone relief shows an offering-table scene with a seated figure/symbols of offerings before a row of vertical offering marks and a column of hieroglyphs.
The object is a roughly rectangular limestone block with relief carving. On the right side, a shallow niche-like field contains a stylized depiction resembling offerings on a low surface (striped, wedge-like forms) and what appears to be a seated/receiving figure or emblem beneath/adjacent to the offering area. Along the bottom register are multiple evenly spaced vertical bands that likely represent offering portions. On the left side there is a vertical column of hieroglyphs incised in outline; the signs are worn/partially damaged but a few clear tall wedge/rod-like elements are visible. No clearly legible royal cartouche is present. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. The inscription appears Egyptian-only and is too indistinct to reliably transcribe beyond acknowledging that hieroglyphic writing is present.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1355E tier-2
- BKM-Object 4144 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.