Egyptian model of butchers at work, from Beni Hasan

Model. Butchers at work. Two men cut the throat of a bull lying on the ground; one man is cooking (?) under a tripod. A figure has been lost from one corner (only his feet remain). One figure has a cloth garment. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Tomb of Khety, tomb 366 (Beni Hasan), Egypt. Painted wood, plaster and linen, height, 16 cm, length 29 cm, width 23 cm, circa 2010-circa 1950 B.C. Twelfth Dynasty, Middle Kingdom.

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• Accession Number: E.71c.1903
• Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
• Aperture: f/32.0
• Focal length: 80
• Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
• Photographer name: Katie Young
• Image height: 768 pixels
• Image width: 1024 pixels
• Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
• Filesize: 130.95kB
• Exposure time: 1/180
• ISO Speed: 100
• Fnumber: 32/1

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