Unpublished offering table of Ankhmeryre at Imhotep museum in Saqqara

Abstract EN

This paper aims to publish and study the offering table of Ankhmeryre, which is currently exhibited at the Imhotep museum in Saqqara (SQ.SCA.19409).

it was discovered in Gisr el-Mudir cemetery at Saqqara in 2003.

this paper provides a comprehensive description of the offering table, including the inscribed texts, their transliteration, translation, and comments regarding Ankhmeryre's names and titles.

through the study of the texts, it has been observed that Ankhmeryre carries another name.

although the name Ankhmeryre was common in the old kingdom, another name NB (.j)-m-hnn-nsw didn't appear among the names of private individuals except one time.

the study concluded that this offering table belongs to NB (.j)-m-hnn-nsw, who was the owner of tomb 604 in Sadment al Gabal, it is dated the end of the old kingdom or the beginning of the first intermediate period.

it could be suggested that this offering table may have been a funerary object from his tomb.

according to this, in addition to the epigraphical and orthographical study of the offering table, it dates from the late old kingdom or the early first intermediate period.