Tomb Wall Fragment Depicting Offering Bearers and Butchers
Date:
Old Kingdom, mid–Dynasty 5–early Dynasty 6 (about 2445–2287 BCE)
Artist:
Egyptian; Saqqara
About this artwork
In the upper register, priests and servants prepare food offerings, including birds and ribs of beef. The lower register portrays butchers at work. Their kilts are tucked into their waistbands to keep them clean. To the left, butchers carry away a cow’s heart and a jar of blood.
Tomb Wall Fragment Depicting Offering Bearers and Butchers
Place
Egypt (Object made in)
Date
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Art Institute of Chicago, Thirty-Second Annual Report: June 1, 1910–June 1, 1911 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1911), 19, 62.
Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), 23 (ill.), 24, 34.
Art Institute of Chicago, Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Feb. 11, 2022 - present.
The Art Institute of Chicago, acquired in 1910.
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