Model Type | |
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combination: baking/brewing/butchery | |
Description | |
Breasted: 7. Cairo Museum. Twelfth dynasty. Bread-making: man crushes grain with large pestle on stone base to fit it; standing woman grinds flour on raised grinding stone; the latter should be turned so that it can be operated from the end and not from the side as at present; another woman tends oven. Brewing: on other side of low partition standing man strains mash through sieve; another man stands behind three vessels; one vessel is tilted and seems to have gauze tied over its mouth; tall man carries large wine jar. Usual slaughtering scene. From Beni Hasan, tomb of Thaui, otherwise called Mehti-em-het (No. 186). Length: 61 cm.; height of tallest figure: 20 cm. Garstang, Burial Customs, fig. 75, p. 86. Garstang Inventory: xiii. Combined scene-baking, sacrifice, brewing. Eight figures. | |
Site | |
Beni Hasan | |
Tomb | |
BH 186 | |
Burial | |
Thaui | |
Museum | |
Egyptian Museum, Cairo | |
Accession number | |
NK | |
Breasted Classification | |
II-4-2 PREPARATION AND PROCESSING OF FOOD - Model Scenes of Baking, Brewing, and Slaughtering. - Type 2 : Scenes of baking, brewing and slaughtering in one room or house. | |
Material | |
wood | |
Dimensions | |
Length 61 cm Height of tallest figure 20 cm | |
References (Bibliography) | |
Barker-2022 , Catalogue of Funerary Models M87 | |
BreastedJnr-1948 , II-4-2 7. | |
Garstang-1907a , pp. 85-6, fig. 75 | |
Links to Images and Other Refs | |
![]() ../IMG/BH_186-model_fig75-in-cairo.jpg | |
../IMG/BH-186bb-1.jpg | |
../IMG/BH-186bb-2.jpg | |
../IMG/BH-186bb-3.jpg | |
../IMG/BH-186bb-4.jpg | |
../IMG/Garst-fig-75.jpg |
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