Image code: 30669

Menna receives food offerings (detail)

Left: Menna is seated on a folding stool on which an animal skin is laid. He wears a light semi-transparent dress and a white skirt. In his hand he holds a staff (he is represented in the official robes of a civil administrator). In front of him are two sub-registers. Lower sub-register: some employees present Menna with food offerings placed on a table, there are: baskets of fruit, geese and other birds, ovoid vases and gourds. Behind the group of men is a cart with a spotted horse, held by an attendant. Upper sub-register: a man prostrates himself at the feet of Menna, in front of him a series of offerings: lotus flowers, baskets of fruit, eggs, poultry, fish and various containers. Behind the man one glimpses part of the scene of measuring the fields.

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