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Female Offering Bearer
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About this work
A servant girl brings tomb offerings to the tomb owner. She carries long stalks of papyri with lotus flosers and buds slung over her arms. The basket balanced on her head contains either fruit or cakes. To the left is an incomplete offering formula. Based on Old Kingdom work.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFemale Offering Bearer, c. 667–647 BCE. Egypt, Thebes, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26. Limestone; overall: 28 x 21.4 cm (11 x 8 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1949.496
