Model Type
feasting
Description
Breasted: 1. Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, E 6273. Intermediate period. Eight figures seated at a funerary meal, on benches at a table on which lie loaves of bread, cakes, and a tray with two vases. Colours: skin, bread, red; hair, eyes, black; skirts, white; vases, red and black.
(see JE 51347-8)
Tooley-1989 p. 87: A particularly interesting group of models in terracotta were found at Hu (plate 15:1-2) in 1927 (E6273, JE 51347-8. Capart 1927, 48, fig. 2; Breasted 1948, 48). The group consists of 10 small male figures each seated on a cube-like chair with arms outstretched. Accompanying them is a low table piled with cakes, loaves and vegetables. Another smaller table supports 2 large beer jars, one stoppered. The tables and figures are all painted. They were found in a shaft tomb along with a "soul-house", a broken wooden boat and inscribed coffin. The style and pose of the figures resemble those from Crete (Andronicos 1985, 41 no. 24; Papapostolou 1981, 22, fig. 20), although figures are not uncommon from within native "soul-houses" (cf. Petrie 1907, XXII). It is likely that this group originated from the "soul-house" they were found with, though of superior quality to most.
NB: There are two isolated figures in Cairo, the other 8 and the setting are in Brussels
Site
Hu / Hiw
Museum
Musées Royaux d`Art et d`Histoire, Brussels
Accession number
E.06273
Breasted Classification
II-6 PREPARATION AND PROCESSING OF FOOD - Dining Scene.
Material
terracotta
References (Bibliography)
BreastedJnr-1948 , II-6 1.
Tooley-1989 , p. 87, Ill. 15:2
Tooley-1999 , Fig 61
Museum Online Record Card
https://carmentis.kmkg-mrah.be/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=82896&viewType=detailView

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