model
- Museum number
- EA29596
- Description
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Painted wooden model of a servant fanning food: representing a male servant squatting by a cooking fire, over which he is waving a fan. The figure is not part of a group, but is mounted on an individual base, perhaps an indication of a relatively early date, since these models became progressively more complex with the passage of time.
- Production date
- 2200BC-1800BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 22.30 centimetres
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Length: 19.60 centimetres
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Width: 8.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
'Art and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt' Japan, 1999-2000 [exhibition catalogue] (Japan, 1999), No. 124;
J.H. Taylor and N.C. Strudwick, Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt. Treasures from The British Museum, Santa Ana and London 2005, pp. 180-1, pl. on p. 180.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2001 26 Jun-23 Sep, Birmingham Gas Hall, Egypt Revealed
2005-2008, California, The Bowers Museum, Death and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1898
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA29596
- Registration number
- 1898,0312.3
