Model of a Carrying Pole
16.11.06.256aa
Information
Long thin roll of clay, probably a model of a carrying pole (like a yoke) to support two loads.
One of 28 clay models of tools and vessels found in grave 154E '06. Similar model tools were found by the Liverpool Institute of Archaeology excavations at Abydos in 1907 in tombs 312, 329, and 360 (see Steven Snape, Mortuary Assemblages from Abydos, 1986, pp. 206, 210 and 221).