Sacred table used in ancient Egyptian religious ceremonies. With two sheafs of wheat, two hydria or water vases and cup. Mensa sacra egittia. Copperplate engraving by Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi after Leonardo Agostini from Gemmae et Sculpturae Antiquae Depicti ab Leonardo Augustino Senesi, Abraham Blooteling, Amsterdam, 1685.

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