Male and Female Offering Bearers

These figures must once have formed part of a tomb relief of a procession of figures bringing offerings to the deceased. Semi-nudity for subservient figures is not rare in Egyptian art. However, the combination of these figures' scanty attire, the boldness of the relief carving, and the semi-frontal depiction of the woman is sufficiently unusual to help date this relief to the second half of the fourth century B.C.