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Prophet and Lector-Priest with Offerings of Live Geese

c. 667–647 BCE
limestone
Overall: 36.8 x 36.6 cm (14 1/2 x 14 7/16 in.)
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1949.494
Location: 107 Egyptian
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Two priests of different rank bring offerings of live geese to be ritually killed for the tomb occupant. This is in sunken relief in the style of the later Old Kingdom.
Prophet and Lector-Priest with Offerings of Live Geese

Prophet and Lector-Priest with Offerings of Live Geese

c. 667–647 BCE

Egypt, Thebes, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26

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