Model Type
	animal husbandry/feeding cattle/force feeding
Description
	Breasted: 1. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 21.819 (Pl. 5a). The spotted ox has its mouth open. Directly in front sits a man wearing a short white skirt, with right arm out-stretched toward animal's mouth. Ox is short-horned type. From El Bersheh, pit 10A. Length: 32 cm.; width: 9 cm. A similar example comes from tomb of Neheri at El Bersheh; cf. Kamal, Annales 11, p. 40.
Site
	el-Bersheh
Tomb
	10A
Burial
	Djehutinakht
Date
	Late 11th to early 12th Dyn.
Ref. for dating
	Freed-etal-2009, App. B
Museum
	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Accession number
	21.819
Breasted Classification
	I-2-4 PRODUCTION AND STORAGE OF FOOD - Cattle-breeding Scenes. - Seated man feeding a crouching ox.
Material
	wood
Dimensions
	Length 32 cm Width 9 cm
References (Bibliography)
	Barker-2022 , Catalogue of Funerary Models M74
	BreastedJnr-1948 , I-2-4 1, Pl. 5a
	Freed-etal-2009 , Fig. 119, pp 158-161
	Kamal-1901a , Annales ASAE II p. 40
	Tooley-1989 , p. 40
Museum Online Record Card
	https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/model-of-a-man-feeding-an-ox-143820
Links to Images and Other Refs
	../IMG/Breasted-SS-Pl-5-a.jpg

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