Model Type
	offering bearer
Description
	Breasted: 16. New York, Metropolitan Museum, 20.3.7 (Pl. 58b, right). Similar to No. 15, except that the woman carries a basket of meats and bread, and has a design on her dress somewhat resembling feathers. The colours of the individual feathers are both light and dark blue, rust red, yellow, green, and white. From Deir el Bahari, tomb of Meketre . Height: 112 cm. Winlock, MMA Bull., loc. cit., right-hand figure. Tooley-1989 (p. 190) : TT280. MMA 20.3.7. H.112 cms. Model L. Female figure forming a pair with the above [JE 46725]. Virtually the same except that the dress is a polychrome feather or scale design and the basket contains food models like a haunch of beef (Winlock 1920, 26, figs.6, 9; 1942, 25, pl. 25; 1955, 39, 40-1, 91, pls.3-4, 30-1,55; Hayes 1953, 266, fig. 174; Breasted 1948, 64, pl. 58).
Site
	Qurneh
Tomb
	TT280
Burial
	Meketre
Museum
	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession number
	20.3.7
Breasted Classification
	IV-1-3-D 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. - Eleventh dynasty.
Material
	wood
Dimensions
	Height 112 cm
References (Bibliography)
	BreastedJnr-1948 , IV-1-3-D 16, Pl. 58b, right
	Ranke-1936 , Pl. 78
	Tooley-1989 , pp. 32,190
	Tooley-1999 , Fig 18
	Winlock-1920 , MMA Bull, Dec. 1920, pt. II, fig. 9, right-hand figure, p. 19
	Winlock-1955 , p. 39-43, Pls 30,31
Museum Online Record Card
	https://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/egyptian_art/statue_of_an_offering_bearer//objectview.aspx?OID=100000427&collID=10&dd1=10
Links to Images and Other Refs
	../IMG/Breasted-SS-Pl-58-b-right.jpg
3D Model
	https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/offering-bearer-ancient-egypt-c49309cc371948d1a2e164d3d6d949d8

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