| Model Type | |
|---|---|
| granary | |
| Description | |
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Breasted: 9. New York, Metropolitan Museum, 20.3.11 (Pl. 11b). Eleventh dynasty. Outside entrance door, which swings on pivots, leads to accounting room containing nine figures. seated doorkeeper; four clerks, of whom two use wooden tablets and the others papyrus rolls; an overseer; seated man in corner, whose occupation is not clear; and two men measuring grain in the usual drum-shaped containers. Six porters are at work in the grain room; five stand on top of a wall emptying their sacks into two of the three bins; a sixth, with full grain sack on his shoulder, is about to climb stairway to join other figures. From tomb of Meketre. Late Eleventh dynasty. Length: 76.4 cm. Winlock, MMA Bull., Dec., 1920, pt. II, fig. 15, pp. 23, 26. | |
| Site | |
| Qurneh | |
| Tomb | |
| TT280 | |
| Burial | |
| Meketre | |
| Museum | |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
| Accession number | |
| 20.3.11 | |
| Breasted Classification | |
| I-3-1-B PRODUCTION AND STORAGE OF FOOD - Storage of Food. - Model granaries with workmen storing grain. - Wooden models of granary storehouses, usually with human figures. | |
| Material | |
| wood | |
| Dimensions | |
| Length 76.4 cm | |
| References (Bibliography) | |
| BreastedJnr-1948 , I-3-1-B 9, Pl. 11b | |
| Tooley-1989 , pp. 32,98 | |
| Winlock-1920 , MMA Bull, Dec. 1920, pt. II, fig. 15, pp. 23, 26 | |
| Winlock-1955 , p. 25-29, Pls 20,21,24,62,63 | |
| Museum Online Record Card | |
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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/545281
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| Links to Images and Other Refs | |
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https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/20.3.11 | |
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