Marseille offering table king list

The Marseille Stele, also known as The Offering Table of Qenhirkhopshef, was originally located in the Karnak Temple complex at Luxor. The top side used for offerings was made in the form of the hieroglyph ḥtp (hotep), which depict 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.

Marseille Stele
Marseille Stele

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

Cartouche
User Maat Ra, setep en Ra

wsr-mꜢꜤt-rꜤ stp.n-rꜤ

Cartouche No. 1, 21
Cartouche
Ramessu mery Amun

rꜤ-msi-sw mri-imn

Cartouche No. 2
Cartouche
Senakht en Ra

snḫt.n-rꜤ

Cartouche No. 3
Cartouche
Seqen en Ra

sḳn.n-rꜤ

Cartouche No. 4
Cartouche
Wadj kheper Ra

wꜢḏ-ḫpr-rꜤ

Cartouche No. 5
Cartouche
Neb hapet Ra

nb-ḥꜢpt-rꜤ

Cartouche No. 6, 31
Cartouche
Neb pehty Ra

nb-pḥti-rꜤ

Cartouche No. 7
Cartouche
Aa kheper ka Ra

ꜤꜢ-ḫpr-kꜢ-rꜤ

Cartouche No. 10, 30
Cartouche
Men kheper Ra

mn-ḫpr-rꜤ

Cartouche No. 11, 23
Cartouche
Aa kheper en Ra

ꜤꜢ-ḫpr-n-rꜤ

Cartouche No. 12, 24
Cartouche
Djoser ka Ra

ḏsr-kꜢ-rꜤ

Cartouche No. 13
Cartouche
Aa kheperu en Ra

ꜤꜢ-ḫprw-n-rꜤ

Cartouche No. 14
Cartouche
Men kheperu en Ra

mn-ḫprw-n-rꜤ

Cartouche No. 15, 25
Cartouche
Neb Maat Ra

nb-mꜢꜤt-rꜤ

Cartouche No. 16, 29
Cartouche
Djoser kheperu en Ra

ḏsr-ḫprw-n-rꜤ

Cartouche No. 17, 26
Cartouche
Men pehty Ra

mn-pḥti-rꜤ

Cartouche No. 18, 27
Cartouche
Men Maat Ra

mn-mꜢꜤt-rꜤ

Cartouche No. 19, 28
Cartouche
Usiri Seti mery en Ptah

wsiri sti mri.n-ptḥ

Cartouche No. 20
Cartouche
Amenhotep

imn-ḥtp

Cartouche No. 22
Cartouche
Ramessu mery Amun

rꜤ-msi-sw mri-imn

Cartouche No. 32

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