<em>Offering Scene of [Amun?]emhet</em>, ca. 1479–1400 B.C.E. Sandstone, 14 15/16 × 11 13/16 × 3 3/4 in., 29.5 lb. (38 × 30 × 9.5 cm, 13.38kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1352E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 37.1352E_PS9.jpg)

Offering Scene of [Amun?]emhet, ca. 1479–1400 B.C.E. Sandstone, 14 15/16 × 11 13/16 × 3 3/4 in., 29.5 lb. (38 × 30 × 9.5 cm, 13.38kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1352E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 37.1352E_PS9.jpg)

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Offering Scene of [Amun?]emhet

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

On View: Egyptian Orientation Gallery, 3rd Floor

This fragmentary scene depicts a man named Amunemhat and his wife. Both face an offering table covered with different kinds of bread and a bunch of green onions. Amunemhat raises his arms in reverence toward a figure, now lost, on the opposite side of the table. This figure may have been the god Osiris or perhaps the owner of the tomb, most likely Amunemhat’s father. In the latter case, Amunemhat’s gesture would indicate his responsibility for maintaining the parents’ funerary cult, the traditional duty of a tomb owner’s eldest son.

MEDIUM Sandstone

Place Made: Egypt

DATES ca. 1479–1400 B.C.E.

DYNASTY Dynasty 18

PERIOD New Kingdom

DIMENSIONS 14 15/16 × 11 13/16 × 3 3/4 in., 29.5 lb. (38 × 30 × 9.5 cm, 13.38kg) mount (dimensions as installed): 15 1/2 × 12 × 4 in. (39.4 × 30.5 × 10.2 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

ACCESSION NUMBER 37.1352E

CREDIT LINE Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund

PROVENANCE Archaeological provenance not yet documented; by 1852, acquired in Egypt by Henry Abbott; 1859, purchased from Henry Abbott by the New-York Historical Society, New York, NY; 1937, loaned from the New-York Historical Society to the Brooklyn Museum; September 1948, purchased from the New-York Historical Society by the Brooklyn Museum.

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CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Fragment of a sandstone stela. Preserved is the right end which bears representation of an offering table surmounted by offerings (right hand portion only preserved) to the right of which are a male and female facing left. The man holds both his hands up before him. Behind him the woman stands with her arms at her sides. Above the man is an inscription. Above the woman is an inscription. Both these figures stand a tiny bit above the base line which supports the offering table. The figures are tall and thin. The technique is crude shallow sunk relief. Condition: Diagonal gouges across ground, but not across figures.

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MUSEUM LOCATION This item is on view in Egyptian Orientation Gallery, 3rd Floor

CAPTION Offering Scene of [Amun?]emhet, ca. 1479–1400 B.C.E. Sandstone, 14 15/16 × 11 13/16 × 3 3/4 in., 29.5 lb. (38 × 30 × 9.5 cm, 13.38kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1352E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 37.1352E_PS9.jpg)

IMAGE overall, 37.1352E_PS9.jpg., 2018

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