| Model Type | |
|---|---|
| combination: baking/brewing/butchery | |
| Description | |
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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 | |
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../IMG/BH-186bb-1.jpg | |
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../IMG/BH-186bb-3.jpg | |
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../IMG/BH-186bb-4.jpg | |
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../IMG/Garst-fig-75.jpg | |
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