Egyptian model of a brewing and baking workshop

An image of Model Workshop. Wooden model of a brewing and baking workshop; two women grounding flour, one woman sifting flour, a man mixing dough, a woman by an oven, a man mashing beer, two men with yokes carrying vessels (supplied by E.172a-b.1903), two large vessels. Wood coated in plaster and painted red-brown, black, white, and pale yellow (women's flesh). The women and one man still have cloth garments. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Tomb of Khety Beni Hasan; tomb 366. Wood, plaster and linen, painted, height 18.5 cm, length 41.4 cm, width 29.7 cm, circa 2010- circa 1950 B.C. Twelfth Dynasty; Middle Kingdom.

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Model Workshop. Wooden model of a brewing and baking workshop; two women grounding flour, one woman sifting flour, a man mixing dough, a woman by an oven, a man mashing beer, two men with yokes carrying vessels (supplied by E.172a-b.1903), two large vessels. Wood coated in plaster and painted red-brown, black, white, and pale yellow (women's flesh). The women and one man still have cloth garments. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Tomb of Khety Beni Hasan; tomb 366. Wood, plaster and linen, painted, height 18.5 cm, length 41.4 cm, width 29.7 cm, circa 2010- circa 1950 B.C. Twelfth Dynasty; Middle Kingdom.

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Accession Number: E.71d.1903
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 768 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 111.51kB
Exposure time: 1/180
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2015:07:09 11:57:15

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20th Century 21st Century alcohol Ancient Egypt antiquity baker baking BC beer beni hasan brewers brewery brewing Egyptian female figures Fitz_ANT grave goods linen loin cloth mashing Middle Kingdom model oven painted plaster studio wood wooden workers working workshop yoke yoking

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