Egyptian model of butchers at work, from Beni Hasan

An image of Model. Butchers at work. Two men cut the throat of a bull lying on the ground; one man is cooking (?) under a tripod. A figure has been lost from one corner (only his feet remain). One figure has a cloth garment. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Tomb of Khety, tomb 366 (Beni Hasan), Egypt. Painted wood, plaster and linen, height, 16 cm, length 29 cm, width 23 cm, circa 2010-circa 1950 B.C. Twelfth Dynasty, Middle Kingdom.

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Model. Butchers at work. Two men cut the throat of a bull lying on the ground; one man is cooking (?) under a tripod. A figure has been lost from one corner (only his feet remain). One figure has a cloth garment. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Tomb of Khety, tomb 366 (Beni Hasan), Egypt. Painted wood, plaster and linen, height, 16 cm, length 29 cm, width 23 cm, circa 2010-circa 1950 B.C. Twelfth Dynasty, Middle Kingdom.

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Accession Number: E.71c.1903
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 768 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 130.95kB
Exposure time: 1/180
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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