food product
- Museum number
- EA40942
- Description
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Three cornered loaf of bread.
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.70 centimetres
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Length: 22.50 centimetres
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Width: 23.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Published:
Naville, The XIth Dynasty Temple at Deir el-Bahari, Part III (1913), 18, pl.13
Wilson, Egyptian Food and Drink, 1988, p.9.
Art and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Japan 1999-2000, [129].
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The loaf was found during Naville's excavations of the 11th dynasty temple at Deir el-Bahri. The published report describes a layer of discarded material lying above the deposit of 18th dynasty votive objects (associated with the cult of Hathor). This debris included baskets, wooden tools, a small bird and cakes of bread.
On bread production in pharaonic Egypt, see D. Samuel, 'Brewing and Baking', in P.T. Nicholson and I. Shaw, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology (Cambridge, 2000), 537-76
- Location
- On display (G61/dc2/sD)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2002, St Albans, Life and Death
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1904
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA40942
- Registration number
- 1904,1008.42