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Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
A. bey Kamal, 'Fouilles à Deir Dronka et à Assiout (1913-1914),' in Annales du Services des Antiquités de l’Égypte 16, Cairo, 1916, p. 86.
This libation table incorporates the sign 'hetep' in the middle, and is composed of a mat on which a loaf is shown in profile. This part which projects above the surface is incised with a channel which allows the liquids used for libations to flow away.
The inscription comprises two “Hetep-di-nesu” offering formulae, starting at the upper right corner, one reading vertically down the right border, the other reading horizontally across the upper border from right to left and then down the left-hand border in a vertical column, and reads: "An offering which the King gives (to) Osiris, Lord of Djedu (Busiris), the Great God, Lord of Abydos, in all of his places. Invocation Offerings of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, food offerings in the Opening of the Ways, in the Wag Festival, in the Mesyt Festival, in the Thoth Festival, and in the Festivals of the Epagomenal Days, in every beautiful festival of public appearance (opening the shrine), for the Ka of the Venerated One Djefai-Hapy. Every necropolis workman, every storehouse place bread and beer into his chapel for the Venerated One Djefai-Hapy the excellent. An offering which the King gives (to) Anubis Who is On His Hill, Lord of Knowledge, He Who is In the Embalming-Place, Lord of the Sacred Land (Cemetery), Foremost in the God’s Booth, Lord of Sepa, in all of his places, that he may give the presentation of offerings therewith, presented to the Venerated One before Osiris, Djefai-Hapy the excellent.”
A. bey Kamal, 'Fouilles à Deir Dronka et à Assiout (1913-1914),' in Annales du Services des Antiquités de l’Égypte 16, Cairo, 1916, p. 86.
This libation table incorporates the sign 'hetep' in the middle, and is composed of a mat on which a loaf is shown in profile. This part which projects above the surface is incised with a channel which allows the liquids used for libations to flow away.
The inscription comprises two “Hetep-di-nesu” offering formulae, starting at the upper right corner, one reading vertically down the right border, the other reading horizontally across the upper border from right to left and then down the left-hand border in a vertical column, and reads: "An offering which the King gives (to) Osiris, Lord of Djedu (Busiris), the Great God, Lord of Abydos, in all of his places. Invocation Offerings of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, food offerings in the Opening of the Ways, in the Wag Festival, in the Mesyt Festival, in the Thoth Festival, and in the Festivals of the Epagomenal Days, in every beautiful festival of public appearance (opening the shrine), for the Ka of the Venerated One Djefai-Hapy. Every necropolis workman, every storehouse place bread and beer into his chapel for the Venerated One Djefai-Hapy the excellent. An offering which the King gives (to) Anubis Who is On His Hill, Lord of Knowledge, He Who is In the Embalming-Place, Lord of the Sacred Land (Cemetery), Foremost in the God’s Booth, Lord of Sepa, in all of his places, that he may give the presentation of offerings therewith, presented to the Venerated One before Osiris, Djefai-Hapy the excellent.”