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| Keywords: Egyptian - Egyptian Incense Burner - Walters 54498 - Detail.jpg A staff of priests and priestesses performed the daily rituals of the Egyptian temple A chief priest tended to the cult image of the temple's god or goddess in the name of the king who was thought to have daily need of food and clothing Lesser ranking priests attended to offerings and performed the minor parts of the temple rituals Incense burners were used extensively in temple and funerary ceremonies to purify the sacred space The handle of this incense burner ends in a falcon's head At the center is a figure of a king kneeling before a cartouche-shaped pan that held incense pellets The other end now missing was shaped like a hand holding a small pan for burning the incense century 7 4 BC late Third Intermediate-Late Period bronze cm 31 accession number 54 498 19955 Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1909 Faces of Ancient Arabia The Giraud and Carolyn Foster Collection of South Arabian Art The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2008 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Egyptian art in the Walters Art Museum Incense burner arm | ||||
