Model Type
brick-making
Description
Funerary model on top of the coffin of Henu, portraying scenes of daily life in miniature. This funerary model is extremely rare and portrays the production of mud brick. One man is working clay with a hoe, two others are carrying a bag of clay with a yoke on their shoulders, while a fourth man is forming a line of finished mud bricks.
Site
el-Bersheh
Tomb
Henu
Burial
Henu
Date
Late First Intermediate Period
Museum
NK
Accession number
n/a
Material
wood
References (Bibliography)
deMeyer-2009 , pp 37-41
Links to Images and Other Refs


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