Model Type | |
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file of offering bearers / offering bearer | |
Description | |
Breasted: 2. New York, Metropolitan Museum, 20.3.8 (Pl. 62b). Eleventh dynasty. These four figures are led by a priest who carries censer and a libation vase. Behind him walks a man carrying a pile of linen sheets. He is followed by two conventional figures of women holding ducks in their hands and carrying baskets on their heads; of these, the foremost one has jars and bread loaves in her basket while the other holds cakes. From Deir el Bahari, tomb of Meketre. Winlock, MMA Bull., Dec., 1920, pt. II, p. 26 (not illust.). | |
Site | |
Qurneh | |
Tomb | |
TT280 | |
Burial | |
Meketre | |
Museum | |
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
Accession number | |
20.3.8 | |
Breasted Classification | |
IV-1-4 SERVANTS CARRYING SUPPLIES FOR DECEASED, AND FUNERAL SCENES - Servants Carrying Supplies for Deceased. - Processions of men and women servants bringing supplies. | |
Material | |
wood | |
References (Bibliography) | |
BreastedJnr-1948 , IV-1-4 2, Pl. 62b | |
Tooley-1989 , pp. 32,190 | |
Winlock-1920 , MMA Bull, Dec. 1920, pt. II, p. 26 not illust. | |
Winlock-1955 , p. 39-53, Pl 32 | |
Museum Online Record Card | |
URL: http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/egyptian_art/statue_of_an_offering_bearer//objectview.aspx?OID=100000335 | |
Links to Images and Other Refs | |
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