Model Type
file of offering bearers
Description
None of [of the figures] have preserved us in their original state, they have become almost all victims of the termites, which they completely hollowed out on the inside and whose excrement hardened on the outer surface, so that these now form the outer contours. In other cases, the moisture and salinity of the soil have done their part to make the wood brittle or to destroy it entirely.
[...]
The shaft 684 also contained peasant women with the wooden basket, which, as in later times, was separated by lines was marked as wattle.
There were also remnants of a crouching figure with a fan in one hand.
Junker, 1914
Site
Giza
Tomb
Shaft 684
Burial
Unknown
Date
6th Dyn.
Ref. for dating
Breasted
Museum
NK
Accession number
n/a
Breasted Classification
IV-1-3-B SERVANTS CARRYING SUPPLIES FOR DECEASED, AND FUNERAL SCENES - Servants Carrying Supplies for Deceased. - Women servants singly, or in rows of two or more, bring supplies for deceased. - Sixth dynasty.
Notes
Did not survive excavation
Material
wood
References (Bibliography)
BreastedJnr-1948 , IV-1-3-B 1
Junker-1914 , p. 41 offprint



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