Model Type
	ploughing
Description
	Breasted: 2. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 21.408 (Pl. 2a). This model has two plowmen. One man has both arms on the plow handle. The other, ahead and slightly to the left of him, may be engaged in driving the two oxen. His left arm is bent as though to carry something on the left shoulder. Both men wear unusually long white skirts. No feet are indicated for the men. The surface of the ground is suggested by dark brown splashed with white. Exped. No. 15-5-57. From El Bersheh, Pit 10A, tomb of Dehuti-nekht. Length: 54 cm. Cf. Dunham, MFA Bull., Aug. 1921, p. 46.
Site
	el-Bersheh
Tomb
	10A
Burial
	Djehutinakht
Date
	Late 11th to early 12th Dyn.
Ref. for dating
	Freed-etal-2009, App. B
Museum
	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Accession number
	21.408
Breasted Classification
	I-1-2 PRODUCTION AND STORAGE OF FOOD - Agricultural Scenes. - Man or men plowing.
Material
	wood
Dimensions
	Length 54 cm
References (Bibliography)
	BreastedJnr-1948 , I-1-2 2, Pl. 2a
	Dunham-1921 , p. 46
	Freed-etal-2009 , Fig. 120, pp161,2
	Tooley-1989 , p. 40
Museum Online Record Card
	https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/model-scene-of-workers-ploughing-a-field-143701
Links to Images and Other Refs
	../IMG/Breasted-SS-Pl-2-a.jpg

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