Model Type
	brick-making
Description
	MFA website: This wooden tomb model depicts a brick-making scene. The wooden base has been painted dark brown to indicate clay being dug to be made into bricks. Four (of likely five original) male figures remain attached to the board. All figures are painted reddish-brown and wear white kilts and short, black wigs. At the back, one figure has a swath of linen wrapped around it at roughly waist level. This figure leans forward in the act of digging clay. Two standing figures carry a pole over their shoulder and held by holes in their hands. The pole likely originally held a basket of clay. The feet of the standing figures are carved as pegs for insertion into the base. The front figure kneels before shaped bricks that have been indicated by incised lines in the base. He likely would have been furnished with a model brick mould. The figures' arms are separate components from the bodies. The rear figure is missing his right arm, the attachment peg of which still protrudes from his shoulder.
Site
	el-Bersheh
Tomb
	10A
Burial
	Djehutinakht
Date
	Late 11th to early 12th Dyn.
Ref. for dating
	Freed-etal-2009, App. B
Museum
	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Accession number
	21.821
Material
	wood
References (Bibliography)
	Barker-2022 , Catalogue of Funerary Models M155
	Freed-etal-2009 , See pp. 164
Museum Online Record Card
	https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/model-of-men-making-bricks-143822
Links to Images and Other Refs
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