Model Type
baking
Description
Breasted: 4. Philadelphia, University Museum, E 14262[sic]. Intermediate period. Wood. Two women kneading dough or baking bread.
Tenth dynasty. From sarcophagus chamber of tomb of Khent-kheti at Sedment.
Note: The obj number given by Breasted does not match the Upenn online cat. ? Possibly the figures referred to are E1837 (here) and E1838 .
Upenn online cat: Model of a woman. Skin, yellow; skirt and whites of eyes, white; hair, brows, lashes and eyes, black. The arms are jointed and she squats as if she had been moulding a loaf of bread.
Site
Sedment
Tomb
2111
Burial
Khent-kheti
Museum
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
Accession number
E1837
Breasted Classification
II-1-8 PREPARATION AND PROCESSING OF FOOD - The Making of Bread. - Groups engaged in different stages of bread-making.
Material
wood
References (Bibliography)
BreastedJnr-1948 , II-1-8 4.
Museum Online Record Card
https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/60504

Links to Images and Other Refs


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