Three stone offering-tables were found in 2011 in the forecourt of M.I.D.A.N.05, during the excavation of the lowest layers of its filling, aligned with the entrance to the tomb and at the base of the mud-brick ramp leading to the door. The three tables had been laid on a previous thick layer of vegetal remains, composed of bouquets and garlands of leaves and flowers, and pertain to the Saitic and Late Period use of the tomb, whose original dating can be set at the true beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Together with the floral offerings, many mud jar stoppers, and burnt organic residuals on the tables and around them, they draw a scenery of rituals for the dead performed in the forecourt in occasion of the funerals or special feasts. The most beautiful and well preserved of the three tables, datable to the end of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty to the Thirtieth Dynasty, is here presented.
Una tavola d’offerta dalla corte di M.I.D.A.N.05 a Dra Abu-el-Naga
Betrò, Marilina
2018-01-01
Abstract
Three stone offering-tables were found in 2011 in the forecourt of M.I.D.A.N.05, during the excavation of the lowest layers of its filling, aligned with the entrance to the tomb and at the base of the mud-brick ramp leading to the door. The three tables had been laid on a previous thick layer of vegetal remains, composed of bouquets and garlands of leaves and flowers, and pertain to the Saitic and Late Period use of the tomb, whose original dating can be set at the true beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Together with the floral offerings, many mud jar stoppers, and burnt organic residuals on the tables and around them, they draw a scenery of rituals for the dead performed in the forecourt in occasion of the funerals or special feasts. The most beautiful and well preserved of the three tables, datable to the end of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty to the Thirtieth Dynasty, is here presented.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.