Model jar
Medium:Wood, carved and painted
Geography: Excavated at Deir el-Bahri, Egypt
Date: c. 2055-2004 BC
Period: Reign of Mentuhotep II, 11th Dynasty, Middle Kingdom
Object number: 907.18.703
DescriptionPart of a wooden tomb model of a type popular in undecorated tombs during the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom. This is a model wooden, large, neckless, storage jar with a ledged rim. On top is a conical stopper painted black with a white spiral indicating the seal of the vessel. Traces of cream paint appear on the ovoid body, but mostly the surface is abraded. There is a wide vertical crack from top to bottom on one side of the vessel. There is a hole (7 mm wide) in the rounded base which contains the remains of a dowel which originally connected the vessel to a scene.
