Model Type
	offering bearer
Description
	MFA website: This wooden model figure depicts a nude female offering bearer standing with legs together, feet slightly apart, carrying a basket on her head. The arms are carved as separate components and are still articulated with the body. The left arm is raised to balance the basket. She stands on a rectangular wooden base. The end of the legs have been carved as pegs for attachment to the base, and one added foot component (the left) remains. The skin is painted a dark brownish-yellow. She wears a short, black wig. The eyes are detailed in white and black. The pubic area is detailed with incised dots filled with black. A black line pattern has been applied to the basket. The base retains traces of white paint and what appears to be a black outline of the woman's feet.
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
	21.883
Material
	wood
References (Bibliography)
	Barker-2022 , Catalogue of Funerary Models M142, Figure 3.14
	Freed-etal-2009 , Fig 114, pp 144-158
	Tooley-1989 , pp. 40, 205, 232
Museum Online Record Card
	https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/model-of-a-female-offering-bearer-143957
Links to Images and Other Refs
	../IMG/BMFA-offering-bearers.jpg

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