Description

Part of a wooden tomb model of a type popular in undecorated tombs during the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom.  The dowel on the base and the hole in the neck indicate that this vessel was attached to a larger model, perhaps in a basket of offerings. The body of the vessel is drop-shaped with a rounded base. The slender jar has a short neck and a rounded ledge rim. The body of the vessel was painted white. The mushroom-shaped stopper (2 x 2.5 cm) is painted black and some of the black paint extends over the jar's rim.