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The Serapeum Offering Table is an Aramaic-inscribed offering table for libation found at the Serapeum of Saqqara in Egypt by
Auguste Mariette François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (11 February 182118 January 1881) was a French scholar, archaeologist and Egyptologist, and the founder of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, the forerunner of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Early ...
in 1850. It has been dated to 400 BCE.Inscription phénicienne sur une pierre à libation du Sêrape'um de Memphis
Bulletin archéologique de l'Athenaeum français, Number 8, August 1855 The inscription is known as KAI 268, CIS II 123 and TAD C20.1. It is a dedication by Ahital to his father Baneith.


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{{Louvre Museum Aramaic inscriptions Serapeum Saqqara KAI inscriptions Archaeological discoveries in Egypt 4th-century BC works 1850 archaeological discoveries