Relief depicting an offering table and part of an inscription

Middle Kingdom

ca. 2010–2000 B.C. or ca. 2000–1981 B.C.

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 107

The original colors are very well-preserved on this block, which depicts offerings that were piled in front of a now-missing figure of the tomb owner at his funerary banquet. Visible here are figs in a basket, molds for baking bread, a huge goose, and meat and vegetables topped by two papyrus plants. The inscription below provides a partial list of Dagi’s titles: “sealer [of the king of Lower Egypt], sole companion, favorite of the god, director of those who are among the gods, [. . .] of Horus.”

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Title: Relief depicting an offering table and part of an inscription
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 11
Reign: late reign of Mentuhotep II or later
Date: ca. 2010–2000 B.C. or ca. 2000–1981 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Dagi (TT 103, MMA 807), MMA excavations, 1911–12
Medium: Limestone, paint
Dimensions: H. 55 × W. 71.5 cm (21 5/8 × 28 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1912
Object Number: 12.180.244
Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

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