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May your good name be eternal! (Funerary relief slabs from Saqqara and Abusir)

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2016

Abstract

Publication of four funerary limestone relief slabs from the Memphide necropolis: Saqqara - reg.no. 16 204 a (Tisatjet; mid Dynasty 2), Saqqara - reg.no. 16 204 b (Nesptah; late Dynasty 3), Abusir - reg.no. 19 156 (Denegneferef; late Dynasty 2), Abusir - exc.no. 15/AS 39/2013 (anonymous owner; early Dynasty 4). The central dominant motif in the decoration of these slabs represents the offering-table scene, where the owner receives his offerings of bread, furthermore beer, wine, meat, fowl, earth almonds, oils, incense, linen (of different types and numbers), etc.

Their names are occasionally added.