Search Results: Offerings

Statue of an Egyptian woman bearing offerings, made from painted fig wood, early 12th dynasty (c. 1950 BCE). Louvre Museum, Paris.

Apulian stemless cup (fragment) depicting a processional dancer bringing cake offerings, c. 350-325 BCE. The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, Reading. acc. no. 22.3.24 In ancient Greece, bringing offerings to gods and goddesses, or deified...

A relief from the temple at Kom Ombo in Egypt depicting Ptolemy VI Philometor (r. 180-145 BCE) making offerings to the gods. Ptolemy can be seen at the far right, holding offerings.

A depiction from the tomb of the vizier Rekhmire showing him and his mother receiving offerings. Rekhmire served under the pharaohs Thutmose III (1458-1425 BCE) and his son Amenhotep II (1425-1400 BCE). (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York...

This fragment of a stela shows two women before tablets of offerings. From Abydos, Late Middle Kingdom, circa 1750 BCE. (National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin, Republic of Ireland)

Limestone slab with 14 columns of hieroglyphic inscriptions listing offerings The hieroglyphs on the slab edge read "revered before Anubis upon his mountain, he who is in the embalming-place". The slab dates back to the Old Kingdom of Egypt...

The stone Kernos for food offerings of the collected harvest, the Minoan settlement of Malia, Crete (1650-1450 BCE).

A collection of objects offered to Lake Guatavita by the Muisca tribe of ancient Colombia. Includes ceramic vessels and is now on display in British Museum, London.

At the beginning of time, the god Atum stood on the primordial mound in the midst of the waters of chaos and created the world. The power which enabled this act was heka (magic) personified in the god Heka, the invisible force behind the...

The Arapaho Creation Story is the account of how the world was made from the mud at the bottom of the endless waters by Father (also given as Pipe Person in some versions) with the help of the duck and the turtle. The story is similar to...