Offering table with statuette of Sehetepib

Offering table with statuette of Sehetepib

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

These objects were found in the vertical shaft of a tomb, but they were probably originally in an aboveground chapel. The statuette is inscribed with the title and name of the owner on the front of his long garment. It is set into a separate base in the shape of a small offering table with a projecting drain, cleverly placing the statue of the owner near the symbolic provisions it would receive.

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.