Tomb-model

Description

Model food-offering in calcite, of a plucked and bound duck : Ancient Egyptian, Middle Kingdom, late 12th to 13th Dynasty, c.1862-1630 BC

Museum reference

A.1911.338

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Tomb-model, Model-offering, Food-offering

Production information

Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

Middle Kingdom
12th Dynasty
13th Dynasty

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Alabaster

Physical description

Alabaster

Collection place(s)

Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Hilton Price Collection
Collector: Hilton Price, Frederick George, 1842 - 1909

Exhibitions

• Egyptian Mummies: Immortality in the Land of the Pharaohs (06 Oct 2007 - 24 Mar 2008)
  Landesmuseum Württenberg

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Bourriau, J., PHARAOHS AND MORTALS: EGYPTIAN ART IN THE MIDDLE KINGDOM, Cambridge University Press, 1988, p.102, cat.87a

Egyptian Mummies: Immortality in the Land of the Pharaohs: Landesmuseum Wurttemberg, Stuttgart, 2007, pp128-129, cat. 126