Bases for a Model Figures

55.82.97

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Two rectangular pieces of wood with holes for supporting standing model figures. One with two holes is marked 363, the tomb number corresponding to a model figure emptying a sack or bucket (accession no. 55.82.44). One with one hole is marked with the number 22.3.15.2 corresponding to a model figure of a man carrying a sack. From Beni Hasan, cemetery below the Middle Kingdom rock-cut tombs: excavated by John Garstang of the Liverpool Institute of Archaeology, 1902-1904. CONDITION NOTE (1998): Splitting, some damage, surface dirt, remnants of pigmentation?