Model Type
baking
Description
Breasted: 9. Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum, 1914.72. Twelfth dynasty. Three figures engaged in bread- or beer-making: male overseer, 17 cm. high, in striding pose; squatting woman, 11 cm. high, whose right arm apparently held stick and who probably tended fire; man, 13 cm. high, carrying jugs on yoke across shoulders.
From Beni Hasan (?). Purchased from Martyn Kennard Collection. Cf. Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, July 18, 1912, p. 51, No. 506.
Inf. Nat Mus Scot: probably sawn in modern times from a larger group
Site
Beni Hasan
Museum
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Accession number
A.1914.72
Breasted Classification
II-4-1 PREPARATION AND PROCESSING OF FOOD - Model Scenes of Baking, Brewing, and Slaughtering. - Baking and brewing in same house or room.
Material
wood
References (Bibliography)
Barker-2022 , Catalogue of Funerary Models M266
BreastedJnr-1948 , II-4-1 9.
Sotheby-1912 , p. 51, No. 506
Museum Online Record Card
https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/collection-search-results/?item_id=300283

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