Relief from an Offering Niche

Relief from an Offering Niche

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Like 10.175.71", this block lined one side of a niche on the exterior of a mud brick mastaba at Saqqara; the back part of the niche would have held a false-door stela. This niche would have served the same purpose as a complete chapel. At the top of this block is an offering list, with a group of funerary priests in the register below. Part of a butchering scene is visible at the bottom of the block.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.