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: 907.18.704
DescriptionPart of a wooden tomb model of a type popular in undecorated tombs during the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom. This wooden model of a slender jar has a rounded base, a vertical neck, and a ledged rim. Chips are missing from the rim. There are traces of cream slip on the body. On the top is a cone-shaped stopper painted black. In the base is a dowel hole (.5 cm in diameter) with a projecting bit of the wooden dowel through which the vessel was attached to a scene. There is a large (4.5 x 2 cm) vertical gouge out of one side.
