Model Type | |
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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 | |
../IMG/BMFA-offering-bearers.jpg |
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