Griffith Institute w&d 164 | Men offering cups
Artist
Rosalind F. E. Paget.
Watercolour not signed but credited "R.F.E.P." on frontispiece plate of El Bersheh ii.
Watercolour not signed but credited "R.F.E.P." on frontispiece plate of El Bersheh ii.
Date
Not dated, probably 1893 or 1894.
Site
Deir el-Bersha.
Tomb of Djehutinakht. Dynasty XII.
Deir el-Bersha.
Tomb of Djehutinakht. Dynasty XII.
Description
Relief fragment with remains of five men kneeling offering drinking cups.
From scene: Remains of scene of table and offering-list before Djehutinakht and wife, with harvest below.
Relief fragment with remains of five men kneeling offering drinking cups.
From scene: Remains of scene of table and offering-list before Djehutinakht and wife, with harvest below.
Technical data
Watercolour.
712 mm x 518 mm.
Annotations:
Watercolour, recto [no mount],
'Bersha piece 3'; 'coloured plate (?)'.
Watercolour, verso [no mount],
'El Bersheh. II'; 'Frontispiece'.
Watercolour.
712 mm x 518 mm.
Annotations:
Watercolour, recto [no mount],
'Bersha piece 3'; 'coloured plate (?)'.
Watercolour, verso [no mount],
'El Bersheh. II'; 'Frontispiece'.
Griffith Institute w&d
164
164
Publications
See PM iv.177(4) | TopBib 409-060-010-010; GI w&d Deir el-Bersha Project; Griffith, F. L. & Newberry, P. E. El Bersheh ii [1895], 22-3 frontispiece (this fragment adjoins another, see pl. ix [3]).
See PM iv.177(4) | TopBib 409-060-010-010; GI w&d Deir el-Bersha Project; Griffith, F. L. & Newberry, P. E. El Bersheh ii [1895], 22-3 frontispiece (this fragment adjoins another, see pl. ix [3]).
This fragment of painted relief is from an offering scene in the tomb of Djehutinakht at Deir el-Bersha. Part of a larger scene in which Djehutinakht is seated before a table laden with offerings, enough to sustain him in the Afterlife, this fragment comes from an offering list and bears the remains of five male offering bearers all kneeling; each figure offers up two small pottery cups containing different types of liquids. Below the offering bearers are the upper parts of five columns of text and part of a head. This fragment was presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund (now the Egypt Exploration Society) in 1894 to the British Museum in London (EA 1151).
Photography Jenni Navratil, assisted by Hana Navratilova
Editing and web pages Elizabeth Fleming, assisted by Francisco Bosch-Puche & Cat Warsi.