Relief from an Offering Niche

First Intermediate Period

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 103

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.

Relief from an Offering Niche, Limestone, paint

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