Model of a Servant

Crude male figure stooping to empty a bag of grain into a granary silo. Long white painted kilt looking like trousers. Bag is yellow and black with white top. The face is damaged. From the tomb of Bakta, number 412. From Beni Hasan, cemetery below the Middle Kingdom rock-cut tombs: excavated by John Garstang of the Liverpool Institute of Archaeology, 1902-1904; given to the museum by John Rankin per Professor Newberry.