Model Type
	offering bearer
Description
	This wooden model figure depicts a nude female offering bearer standing with legs together, feet slightly apart, with a basket on her head. The arms are carved as separate components and are still articulated with the body. The left arm is raised to balance the basket. The figures legs are long relative to the rest of the body. She stands on a rectangular wooden base. The feet have been carved as pegs for attachment to the base. The skin is painted a dark brownish-yellow, possibly discolored somewhat from a somewhat lighter original hue. The wig is black. The eyes are detailed in white and black, and the pubic area is detailed with small incised lines filled with black. A black line pattern has been applied to the basket.
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
	21.418
Material
	wood
References (Bibliography)
	Freed-etal-2009 , Fig 114, pp 144-158
	Tooley-1989 , pp. 40,205,206,232, Ill. 43:
Museum Online Record Card
	https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/model-of-a-female-offering-bearer-143711
Links to Images and Other Refs
	../IMG/BMFA-offering-bearers.jpg

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