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Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Two Offering Bearers

c. 667–647 BCE

Egypt, Late period , Dynasties 25–26

(715–332 BCE)
limestone
Overall: 35.7 x 42 cm (14 1/16 x 16 9/16 in.)
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1949.495
Location: 107 Egyptian

Description

Priests of unspecified rank bring different types of bread, a duck, and lotus flowers to the tomb. Sunken relief in the style of the later Old Kingdom.
  • Thebes, Asasif, tomb of Mentuemhat (no. 34), chapel E. Purchased from Mrs. Paul Mallon, Paris (Mallon 185)
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” January 1952, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Wunderlich, Silvia. "A Group of Egyptian Reliefs of the Saïte Period." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 39, no. 3 (March 1952): 44-47, 49-50. Mentioned: p. 44 www.jstor.org
    Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 400
  • In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).
  • {{cite web|title=Two Offering Bearers|url=false|author=|year=c. 667–647 BCE|access-date=19 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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