Model Type
cook
Description
Oriental Inst Online Cat.:
Registration Number: E 11490, Dyn 6, Classification/Specific: Cook (Model), Material/Specific: Wood, Plaster, Stucco
Description: Tending pots, squatting, left forearm missing, covered with stucco and painted. left arm detached but intact - all pots missing. Man heating a stack of bread molds.
Petrie p. 15: 613. Tomb of Nenna (pl.i). Rectangular chamber in the hill-side, with entrance from south-east, forming a chapel. In west wall a niche containing the ebony figure of Nenna, inscribed on the pedestal. The statue was held into the niche by a bar of wood. Under the niche, statuette of a woman fanning a log fire. Almost touching this to the south, lying against the wall, body on a mat, head north, face east, left side, slightly can tracted. loosely swathed. Also on the chapel floor were fragments of wooden coffin and coarse IXth dynasty sherds.
Site
Sedment
Tomb
613
Burial
Nenna
Date
6th Dyn.
Ref. for dating
OIC cat
Museum
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago
Accession number
E 11490
Material
wood
References (Bibliography)
BreastedJnr-1948 , II-4-2 9
Petrie-etal-1924 , pl. I: 22, 23; text, p. 4,15
Tooley-1989 , p. 50
Museum Online Record Card
https://isac-idb.uchicago.edu/id/edfcb473-ffce-4aaf-b9b9-e94ce05cb0be

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