Priests Performing Funeral Rites
-667–-647
- Medium
- limestone
- Dimensions
- Overall: 36.2 x 48.2 cm (14 1/4 x 19 in.)
- Genre
- Sculpture
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
Egypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasties 25–26
About
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.