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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Myra Wysinger: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: The Meroitic mortuary offerings reflect many objects the Meroite would use in the afterworld. The offering tables were used to make libations in behalf of the deceased after his interment. They were made of sandstone and shaped either rectangular or square. The tables measured anywhere between ten and fourteen inches in length, with a recessed center surrounded by a raised border. The offering tablets and funerary stela often include carved designs and inscriptions. The inscriptions were in Meroitic. The most popular designs on the tables include loaves of bread, and the mortuary gods Anubis and Nephthys.[/QUOTE][b]Offering Table[/b] Sandstone From Meroe, northern cemetery, Pyramid B N 30 Meroitic, A.D. 140-155 Berlin Museum [IMG]http://wysinger.homestead.com/table.jpg[/IMG] The goddess Nephthys and the god Anubis pour water or milk over an offering altar. Anubis looks after the deceased, and Nephthys assists her sister, Isis, in mourning and protecting the deceased Osiris. The scene thus associates the deceased with Osiris. The text is written in Meroitic hieroglyphic, instead of the usual cursive Meroitic script. Some of the inscription may be deciphered, thanks to the strict conventionality of offering table formulae: "O Isis, O Osiris, Takideamani, born of Napatadakheto, and created by Adeqetali, . . . may . . .a good Nile may . . . become . . . may . . ." -- Karl-Heinz Priese [/QB][/QUOTE]
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