Model Type
	rope-making
Description
	Breasted: 3. Cairo Museum. This model rather closely resembles No. 1 above. Hence Quibell's suggestion that this is a laundry is mistaken. The four figures duplicate the activities performed in the quoted example: two standing men are twisting rope or something similar in the same fashion as before. A second standing man is beating flax or papyrus fibre on a platform before him. And finally, a figure wearing a female headdress carries a beater's board under her left arm and a club in her right hand; she is not carrying clerk's tablets as Quibell states. From Sakkara, tomb of Karenen. Tenth dynasty. Base: 47 cm. x 20 cm. Quibell, Excavations at Saqqara (1906-1907), Pl. XVIII:2, pp. 11, 75. Rather poorly preserved.
Site
	Saqqara
Tomb
	Karenen
Burial
	Nefersemdet
Date
	Late 11th to early 12th Dyn.
Ref. for dating
	Tooley-1989 p. 56.
Museum
	Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Accession number
	NK
Breasted Classification
	III-4-3 INDUSTRIES: CRAFTSMEN AND SHOPS - Workers in Leather, Flax, and Papyrus. - Flax- or papyrus-fibre workers.
Material
	wood
Dimensions
	Base 47 cm x 20 cm
References (Bibliography)
	BreastedJnr-1948 , III-4-3 3.
	Quibell-1908 , Pl. XVIII:2, pp. 11, 75
Links to Images and Other Refs
	../IMG/QuibSaqq-06-7-Pl-XVIII-2.jpg

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