Workshop

Wooden model of a brewing and baking workshop; two women grounding flour, one woman sifting flour, a man mixing dough, a woman by an oven, a man mashing beer, two men with yokes carrying vessels (supplied by E.172a-b.1903), two large vessels. Wood coated in plaster and painted red-brown, black, white, and pale yellow (women's flesh). The women and one man still have cloth garments.

From J. Garstang's excavations

Named entities

• Workshop

Acquisition and important dates

• Method of acquisition: Given
• Dates: 1903

Dating

• Twelfth Dynasty
• Middle Kingdom
• Production date: circa 2010 BCE : Tomb of Khety Beni Hasan, early dynasty XII, middle kingdom

Measurements and weight

• 18.5
• 29.7
• 41.4

Materials used in production

• Wood
• Linen
• Plaster

Inscription or legends present

• Text: 366
• Type: Excavator's mark

Associated department: Antiquities

References and bibliographic entries

• Burial customs of ancient Egypt; as illustrated by tombs of the Middle Kingdom, being a report of excavations made in the necropolis of Beni Hasan during 1902-4 page(s): 126-128, 224
• Pharaohs and mortals; Egyptian art in the Middle Kingdom page(s): 105-106
• Umm El-Ga`ab : pottery from the Nile Valley before the Arab conquest page(s): 63
• The Splendour That Was Egypt
• Death on the Nile: Uncovering the Afterlife of Ancient Egypt page(s): 142-143

Identification numbers

• Accession number: E.71d.1903
• Primary reference Number: 50680
• Stable URI

Audit data

• Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
• Updated: Thursday 18 April 2019
• Last processed: Tuesday 22 December 2020
• Data source: Adlib

Associated institutions

• The Fitzwilliam Museum