Object Of The Month

October 07, 2008

Each month the Egypt Centre at the University of Wales, Swansea, UK, runs an interesting Object Of The Month display.

This month the puzzling object from the collection's storeroom is this "mysterious" red clay item:

The object is 299mm long, 157mm wide and 107mm high and it is vaguely catalogued as an "offering tray." Does any one know what this is?

Pictures: courtesy of Egypt Centre/University of Wales.

Comments

[Pedro de Eguiluz]

Very interesting item, i belive it is a small boat to cross the 5th infraworld, to cross the river of forgetness. We can see the 5 marks inside the boat, simbolizing the 5th and deepest underworld.

This structure of infraworld is share by other ancient cultures like Mesoamerica. With 9 underworld, five down and four up.