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Offering table of Imhet
General Information

A limestone offering table of Imhet, inscribed on the rim with hieroglyphs script. Right halves of the hieroglyphs in the right column are destroyed, but not a single sign is lost completely.

Number 5583
Storing Place State Hermitage Museum - Petersburg - Russia
Material Limestone
Type Offering table
Type of Script Hieroglyphic
Discovery Place Saqqara - Saqqara - Egypt
Width 23 cm
Height 12.5 cm
Historical Period The Sixth Dynasty – The Old Kingdom
Inscriptions on the Monument
Transliteration
( If the Hieroglyphic,Demotic or Hieratic text is not appearing clear, install this file )

Htp di inpw qrs.t(w.s) m imn.t nfr(.t) wr.t mitr.t imH.t


Translation

(1) May Anubis be gracious and gove (that she might be) buried at the very good West, (2) mitr.t Imhet

Scientific Publishing

A.O. Bolshakov, Egipetskiye zhertvenniki Starogo tsarstva iz sobraniya Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazhha,EV 24 (1988), 22-23.
S. Hodjash, O. Berlev, The Egyptian Reliefs and stelae in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, (Leningrad, 1982), Supplement, no.1.

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