Offering table of King Piankhy (Piye)
747–716 B.C.
Country of Origin, for CustomsSudan
Findspotel-Kurru, Nubia, Sudan
Medium/TechniqueGilded bronze
DimensionsHeight x diameter (of foot): 82 x 45.5 cm (32 5/16 x 17 15/16 in.)
Credit LineHarvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession number21.3238
On View
Not on viewClassificationsReligious and cult objects
Collections
ProvenanceFrom el-Kurru, Ku 17 (tomb of Piankhy). 1919: excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Sudan.
945–712 B.C.
760–30 B.C.
Early first millennium B.C.
650–550 B.C.
650–550 B.C.
900–700 B.C.
A.D. 363–476
late 4th–late 3rd century B.C.
760–30 B.C.
760–30 B.C.
