Egypten 3.4 :: False door from the tomb of Sentites, Saqqara
- Object description
Sentites was a woman who lived during the 6th Dynasty. Here she is sitting in front of an offering table with offering bread and the leg of an ox. She smells a lotus flower, which symbolises pleasure and life.
Above her head is a list of tomb offerings: a thousand loaves of bread, a thousand jars of beer, a thousand oxen,
a thousand fowl, a thousand alabaster jars (with contents) and a thousand pieces of fine linen. The hieroglyphic inscription around the central part of the false door forms the so-called offering formula which describes how Sentites will receive offerings conveyed by the god Anubis.
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