Model Type | |
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offering bearer | |
Description | |
Breasted: 5. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 04.1774 (Pl. 54a). Wears long white dress extending from just above waist almost to ankles, and supported by strap running around the neck and down again to the upper edge of the dress. Her right hand holds not one but two ducks. Her headdress is held in place by a bright ribbon. Colours: skin, base, under side of birds, and background of basket, yellow; tips of bird's wings and bills, nipples, outlines of facial features, headdress, and lines on basket, black. From Asyut, tomb No. 6, excavations of Chassinat. Height: 56 cm. MFA Bull., April, 1905, p. 14, fig.; Chassinat, Fouilles d'Assiout, pp. 5-6. [translated and adapted]: A female offering bearer from the Middle Kingdom. With one hand she balances a rectangular basket, that may be filled with a white flour, upon her head. With the other, she holds by the wings a white goose with a long tail. Its red feet are tucked under its belly. She wears a wig that ends in a ponytail. The hair is kept on the forehead by a white fillet. She wears a white tunic, supported at the shoulder by a sling. As is customary, her skin is painted entirely in yellow, the eyes and mouth are shown black. | |
Site | |
Asyut | |
Tomb | |
No. 6 | |
Burial | |
Unknown | |
Date | |
11th Dyn. | |
Ref. for dating | |
Breasted | |
Museum | |
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | |
Accession number | |
04.1774 | |
Breasted Classification | |
IV-1-3-D 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. - Eleventh dynasty. | |
Material | |
wood | |
Dimensions | |
Height 56 cm | |
References (Bibliography) | |
BMFA-1905 , p. 14 | |
BreastedJnr-1948 , IV-1-3-D 5, Pl. 54a | |
Chassinat-etal-1911 , pp. 5-6 | |
D'Auria-etal-1988 , Cat 35 p. 102 | |
Tooley-1989 , pp. 35,198,230 | |
Museum Online Record Card | |
https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/statuette-of-female-offering-bearer-130754
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Links to Images and Other Refs | |
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