Male Offering Bearer (c. 667–647 BCE): Art, History and Details

Male Offering Bearer (c. 667–647 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Carved in sunken relief, this limestone slab shows a male offering bearer walking to the right. He holds three papyrus stalks in his right hand and a basket containing four loaves of bread in his left. Although the loaves appear above the basket, they should be understood as its contents.

Object facts

• Title: Male Offering Bearer
• Date: c. 667–647 BCE
• Culture: Egypt, Thebes, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: limestone
• Dimensions: Overall: 35.3 x 21.1 cm (13 7/8 x 8 5/16 in.)
• Collection: Egypt - Late Period
• Department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
• Accession number: 1949.497

A detail from the museum

This offering bearer was part of a larger procession, with traces of objects on either side.

Collection credit

Gift of the Hanna Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” January 1952, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
• Wunderlich, Silvia. "A Group of Egyptian Reliefs of the Saïte Period." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 39, no. 3 (March 1952): 44-47, 49-50.
• Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999

View the collection record

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