A Funerary Stela from the Egyptian Museum (CCG 1753)

([1]) R. Freed, op. cit., p. 326; for examples from the Middle kingdom CCG 2023, 20615, 20747, see: footnotes (23, 25); from Rizeiqat CCG 1597, see: footnote (23); H. Selim, op. cit., pp. 221-223, figs 1-3.

([1]) Goose is so important in ancient Egyptian religion, mythology and funerary offerings. The ancient Egyptians distinguished between several varieties of geese, but ornithologists can not equate with certainty these names with modern species. W. Darby & Others, Food: The Gift of Osiris, Vol. I, London, New York, 1977, pp. 284-286.

([1]) For the foreleg as a joint marked xpS, see: S. Ikram, Choice Cuts: Meat production in Ancient Egypt, OLA, 69, 1995, pp. 50-51, 123, 125 fig. 34, 129.

([1]) Ribs, which are divided into four groups or more, are shown on offering tables or in the hands of offering-bearers, also in the foundation deposits of temples. S. Ikram, op. cit., p. 127.

([1]) For the earliest linguistic record for leek as iAqt from the Sixth Dynasty, and about problem between leek and kurrat, see: L. Keimer, Die Gartenpflanzen im alten Ägypten, II, Herausgegeben von R. Germer, Mainz am Rhein, 1984, p. 59; P. Nicholson, & I. Shaw, op. cit., p. 630.

([1]) For the motif of the lotus flower, its various colors, and its connotations of rebirth, see: Ph. Derchain, Le Louts, La mandragore et le perséa, CdE, 50, 1975, pp. 65-86 ; W. Darby & Others, op. cit., Vol. 2, pp. 620-629, 633.

([1]) For examples of the same horizontal group from the Middle Kingdom see: H. Lagne & H. Schäfer, op. cit., II, Pls XVIII (CCG 20234), XXXII (CCG 20462), XLIX (CCG 20615), particularly from the Twelfth Dynasty, see: W. Budge, HTBM, II, p. 8, PL. 19 (BM 143); for the vertical group, see: W. Budge, HTBM, IV, p. 7, PL. 12 (BM 170); for different kinds of bread, see W. Darby & Others, op. cit., Vol. II, pp. 517ff.