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Priests Performing Funeral Rites
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About this work
A priest and two attendants perform ceremonies for the deceased. Originally, there probably existed (to the left) certain offerings. It is an exact copy of a scene in the Temple of Deir el Bahari made some seven centuries earlier where the figures are reversed.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePriests Performing Funeral Rites, c. 667–647 BCE. Egypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasties 25–26. Limestone; overall: 36.2 x 48.2 cm (14 1/4 x 19 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1951.286
