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Lot Essay
Gustave Jéquier was a celebrated Swiss archaeologist. He first studied in Paris with Gaston Maspero, and then moved to Berlin before joining the de Morgan expedition to Persia, which led to the discovery and decipherment of the code of Hammurabi.
His numerous contributions to the field of Egyptology include his research on the pyramids of the Old Kindgom with the French Institute in Cairo and the discovery of the 13th Dynasty pyramid of Khendjer. Together with Edouard Naville (1844-1926) he is considered Switzerland'd most preeminent archaeologist, and at his death in 1947 most of his collection was acquired by the University of Basel.
This offering table is inscribed in hieroglyphs, which read, "...subsisting on bread, beer, oxen and fowl. ...everything good and pure [for the Ka of] the Venerated One, Sat-[weser]yt, [justified]," the borders also inscribed, reading, to the right, "An offering which the king gives (to) Osiris, Lord of Busiris, the Great God, Lord of Abydos, Invocation-offerings of bread and beer, oxen and fowl for the Venerated One with the Great God, Lord of Heaven(?), Sat-weseryt, justified," and to the left, "A offering which the king gives (to) Anubis, He Who is Upon his Hill, Who is in the Embalming-place, Lord of the Cemetery, in all of his places, Invocation-offerings of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, for the Venerated One with Re, Sat-weseryt, justified".
His numerous contributions to the field of Egyptology include his research on the pyramids of the Old Kindgom with the French Institute in Cairo and the discovery of the 13th Dynasty pyramid of Khendjer. Together with Edouard Naville (1844-1926) he is considered Switzerland'd most preeminent archaeologist, and at his death in 1947 most of his collection was acquired by the University of Basel.
This offering table is inscribed in hieroglyphs, which read, "...subsisting on bread, beer, oxen and fowl. ...everything good and pure [for the Ka of] the Venerated One, Sat-[weser]yt, [justified]," the borders also inscribed, reading, to the right, "An offering which the king gives (to) Osiris, Lord of Busiris, the Great God, Lord of Abydos, Invocation-offerings of bread and beer, oxen and fowl for the Venerated One with the Great God, Lord of Heaven(?), Sat-weseryt, justified," and to the left, "A offering which the king gives (to) Anubis, He Who is Upon his Hill, Who is in the Embalming-place, Lord of the Cemetery, in all of his places, Invocation-offerings of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, for the Venerated One with Re, Sat-weseryt, justified".