Tomb Wall Fragment Depicting Offering Bearers and Butchers

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Old Kingdom, mid–Dynasty 5–early Dynasty 6 (about 2445–2287 BCE)

Egyptian; Saqqara

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.

Status: On View, Gallery 50
Department: Arts of Africa

Culture: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Tomb Wall Fragment Depicting Offering Bearers and Butchers
Place: Egypt (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 2445 BCE–2287 BCE
Medium: Limestone
Dimensions: 45 × 94.3 × 13.7 cm (17 3/4 × 37 1/8 × 5 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: W. Moses Willner Fund
Reference Number: 1910.226
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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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