Model Type
	offering bearer
Description
	Tooley-1989 p. 185: Mastaba 24 of Spy. CG 510. H.35 cms. Female offering-bearer in walking pose, base missing, stout stature, wearing a white dress with 2 broad straps covering the breasts and a white headc10th over the hair. Round the headcloth is a red fillet. On the head is a closed chest, the join between the base and lid marked by a red zigzag line. The chest is supported by the left arm held straight. The pendant right hand is pierced, the bird missing (de Morgan 1903, 19-20, fig. 47; Borchardt 1925, 76; Breasted 1948, 61). The oval face has large eyes set straight, outlined in black with inner canthi marked and irides looking upwards. The brows are curved. The nose and mouth are shallowly modelled. Dated post 6 dyn. (p. 10).
Site
	Dahshur
Tomb
	Mastaba 24
Burial
	Spy
Date
	Post 6th Dyn.
Ref. for dating
	Tooley-1989 p. 10
Museum
	Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Accession number
	CG 510
Notes
	Catalogue Général (CG)
Material
	wood
Dimensions
	Height 35 cm
References (Bibliography)
	Borchardt-1925 , Vol II, p. 76
	Tooley-1989 , pp. 10,185
	deMorgan-1903 , pp. 19-20, fig. 47
Links to Images and Other Refs
	../IMG/CG-510-2.jpg

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