Model Type
offering bearer
Description
Man Museum website: Accession Number 6600
Wooden model of a servant figure, on a rectangular, wooden base. Yellow skin (female?), black wig, white kilt, wrapped in linen. Height (cm) 24.0. Width (cm) 5.0. First Intermediate Period,
Bibliography: [Petrie/Brunton] Sedment I, pl. xvii, fig. 5 (right).
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Petrie/Brunton Sedment p.7 allocation to tomb 1525.
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Tooley-1989 p. 219: Tomb 1525. Man. 6597c. H.25 cms. Female figure with feet together resembling the above pair.[6597a-b] There is no load on the head, but a small bird is held in the right hand (1924a, 7, XVII:5; Breasted 1948, 62).
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Tooley-1989 and Man. Mus. website differ over the acc.no. - we follow Man. website and use 6600.
Site
Sedment
Tomb
1525
Burial
Unknown
Date
FIP
Ref. for dating
Man. Mus. website
Museum
Manchester Museum, Manchester
Accession number
6600
Breasted Classification
IV-1-3-C SERVANTS CARRYING SUPPLIES FOR DECEASED, AND FUNERAL SCENES - Servants Carrying Supplies for Deceased. - Women servants singly, or in rows of two or more, bring supplies for deceased. - Intermediate period.
Material
wood
Dimensions
Height cm 24.0. Width cm
References (Bibliography)
BreastedJnr-1948 , IV-1-3-C 9
Petrie-etal-1924 , p. 7, pl. XVII:5
Tooley-1989 , pp. 50,219
Links to Images and Other Refs


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