Model Type
file of offering bearers / offering bearer
Description
MFA website: This wooden tomb model depicts a procession of three male figures, possibly either offering bearers and/or priests. They wear long, white kilts and have closely cropped hair styles painted black. Their eyes have been detailed in black and white. There are slight traces of reddish-brown to suggest their skin may have been painted this color. The arms have been carved as separate components from the bodies and are attached at the shoulders with small pegs. They standing on a roughly rectangular wooden board. The 'feet' of the figures are carved as pegs for insertion into the base. The absence of additional holes in the base suggest there were no additional figures in the procession.
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
21.887
Material
wood
References (Bibliography)
Freed-etal-2009 , Fig 116, pp 156-158
Museum Online Record Card
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/model-of-a-procession-of-three-officials-143961
Links to Images and Other Refs


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