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 moulded 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)
	Barker-2022 , Catalogue of Funerary Models M139
	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
	https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/model-of-a-female-offering-bearer-143759
Links to Images and Other Refs
	../IMG/BMFA-offering-bearers.jpg

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