Offering Tables

This category includes objects that are usually circular and around 1 meter tall. These objects are used to hold offerings, and are usually found in chapels, temples, or sanctuaries.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
(none)	(none)	1928,1010.479	(none)	(none)
(none)	(none)	1928,1010.481	(none)	(none)
(none)	(none)	1935,0113.804	(none)	(none)
(none)	(none)	1927,1003.278	(none)	(none)
(none)	(none)	1927,1003.279	(none)	(none)
10525	(none)	1928,1010.477	(none)	Stone offering table Calcite White Standing on 3 short cylindrical feet. the feet are perforated both vertically and horisontally possibly to allow of attachment to a wooden stand part missing [drawing] 1:5 Type__
10748	(none)	(none)	B17245	Offering Table Baked clay Champagne vase type Combed decoration and criss-cross incisions above stem Badly broken Type__
10914	(none)	1928,1010.136	(none)	Silver Offering-table In two parts which now though corroded together are displaced The foot is funnel-shaped and was made solid by a filling of bitumen: the top is covered with a silver cap: on this rested a tray with shallow upturned rim [drawing] [Type] XXXVIII
11928A.1	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A.1-.3] Limestone Offering Dish [B-F] 5 Copper Daggers & [G-H] 2 Whetstones. All type V with central rib-shape of gold dagger-blades.
11928A.2	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A.1-.3] Limestone Offering Dish [B-F] 5 Copper Daggers & [G-H] 2 Whetstones. All type V with central rib-shape of gold dagger-blades.
11928A.3	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A.1-.3] Limestone Offering Dish [B-F] 5 Copper Daggers & [G-H] 2 Whetstones. All type V with central rib-shape of gold dagger-blades.
12319	(none)	(none)	(none)	Offering table. White limestone. Engraved with palm design. Top tray badly broken.
12693E	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] 1) Copper pin. Straight. Tang head. Type II. [B] 2) Silver wire spiral coil earring. 2 1/2 coils. Broken. [C] And 1 small with thickened ends 1 1/2 coils. [D] Beads, carnelian barrels and lapis balls. [E] Clay offering table. Badly broken. Plan.
13568	(none)	1935,0113.798	(none)	Clay offering table. Baked. Incised reticulated pattern on stem..
13709	(none)	1928,1010.880	(none)	Offering-table. Drab clay. Fragments of with incised decoration. The design is remarkable. Round the base, incised chevrons and cross-hatched triangles. The stem has two long vertical slots on each side of which are the door-symbols: on one side is a tree flanked by the dotted triangle of the female organ: on the other side is a tree on one side of which is a house(?) either built on piles or with the lower part of its walls of channelled masonry. Field note says much smashed. No drawing. [drawing]
14045	(none)	1935,0113.801	(none)	Clay offering table. Badly smashed. Bottom missing. 4 bands of decoration round upper portion, 2 middle bands have incised criss-cross decoration. Top and bottom band consists of incised triangles.
14055	(none)	(none)	(none)	Offering table. Baked clay. Badly smashed. Incised decoration.
14094	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay offering table. Incised decoration. Hopelessly smashed.
19162	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone table of offerings. White limestone. On the stem, incised palm-leaf pattern. Type 101.
20056	(none)	(none)	(none)	Table-top? White limestone. Semi-circular, with 3 small holes for attachment of legs (?) and three large holes, for standing vases (?). All holes larger at the top. [drawing]
8217	(none)	(none)	(none)	Offering table of white limestone. Made in 2 pieces, a flat plate and a foot, fastened together with bitumen. (card received from Mallowan 1976. TE Reade)
8223	(none)	(none)	(none)	Offering table. White limestone. Only the stem left, and that not perfect. Scratched design of palm leaves(?) [drawing]
8233	(none)	(none)	(none)	Offering table. Clay. Normal "champagne" type, the stem decorated with incised design of palm-leaves, but not slit. Broken but complete.
8245	(none)	(none)	B17310	Clay offering table. Scratched decoration on the base and half way up the stem to a raised band on which were 4 figures of seated gazelles (?) - one now missing. 2 vertical slits up the stem and round holes below these in the splay of the base. Broken and imperfect.
8276	(none)	(none)	(none)	Offering table. Limestone. White. Broken and fragmentary. Made in 2 pieces, a flat plate and a foot fastened together with bitumen. cf. U.8217 similar type.