Model Type
offering bearer
Description
MFA website:
Female offering bearer standing with feet together and balancing a basket on her head with her left hand. She wears a white sheath dress with one shoulder strap. The body is carved of one piece of wood with the arms and basket added. The feet were molded from plaster.
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
21.484
Material
wood
References (Bibliography)
D'Auria-etal-1988 , p. 115, Cat Num 43, fig. 70
Freed-etal-2009 , Fig 114, pp 144-158
Tooley-1989 , pp. 40,205,206,232, Ill. 43:
Museum Online Record Card
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/model-of-a-female-offering-bearer-143759
Links to Images and Other Refs


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