Marseille offering table king list

Also known as the Offering Table of Qenhirkhopshef, was originally located in the Karnak temple complex. The top side used for offerings was made in the shape of the hieroglyph ḥtp (hotep), depicting an offering altar/table.

It was likely made in the reign of the Nineteenth Dynasty pharaoh Merenptah or his son Seti II. The 34 cartouches contain 30 royal names of 17 pharaohs, of which four are the (omitted here) names of Ahmose’s mother and wife (numbers 8, 9, 33, and 34). It now resides at the museum Musée d’Archéologie Méditerranéenne (Collection Clot-Bey, Inv. No. 204, Table d’offrandes de Qenherkhepeshef) in Marseille, France. Dimensions: 39.5 × 34 × 15 cm.

The offering starts on both sides of the run-off spout with the phrase ḥtp-ḏi-nsw, “an offering given by the king” which allowed offerings presented to the gods in the name of the king. There is also a figure of the owner, the Royal scribe in the palace of Truth, with the partial name Qen, presumed to be Qenhirkhopshef.

Note: Cartouche 14 contains Aa-kheperu-en-ra which must be a mistake/variant for Aa-kheperu-ra, the prenomen of Amenhotep II. The similar prenomen of Thutmose II (Aa-kheper-en-ra), is already present (12 and 24).