Model Type
file of offering bearers
Description
BM Collection Cat. - Description:
Six painted wooden figures preparing bread and beer; contained in a model building.


Tooley-1989 Thesis : describes the model as a "bakery model [... that ] contains 2 female figures" (p.232 )


However the primary description ( Tooley 1989 Thesis p.206 ) is:

Bershah, purchased. BM 30719. H.32.2 cms (plate 44: 1). Three offering-bearers in a restored group scene. The 2 females stand with feet together wearing knee length white dresses with one strap over the left shoulder and short hair, parted in the middle, falling to a carved point behind. On the heads are trapezoid baskets supported by the left arms held straight (the second figure is wrongly restored with the right arm in the up position; the hand is clenched). The first figure has the right arm held out straight in front, the hand pierced. The final figure is male, carrying a sack on his back. The faces have eyes set straight, outlined in black, the inner canthi marked and having a cosmetic line. The brows are straight but slanted. By eye style, possibly early 12 dyn. (cf. p. 188. JE 49634, Mo'alla)


The associated 1989 Plate (44: 1) is not very clear. The model shown in 1989 is described as "restored", and its figures only form part of the current scene.

Site
el-Bersheh
Date
12th Dyn.
Ref. for dating
BM Online cat.
Museum
British Museum, London
Accession number
EA30719 or 1899,0610.7
Material
wood
Dimensions
Height 32.2 cm
References (Bibliography)
Tooley-1989 , pp. 206,232, Ill. 44:1
Museum Online Record Card
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA30719

Links to Images and Other Refs


../IMG/Tooley-PHD-plate-044-1-s.jpg

https://www.bmimages.com/preview.asp?image=01612974519&itemw=4&itemf=0007&itemstep=1&itemx=1



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