IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 50994 accession number: E.58.1907 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 18 July 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 'Soul house'. These models provide a dwelling space for the soul of the deceased. It also combines offerings, which can be seen lying on the floor of the lower courtyard. There are stairs on the exterior to allow access to the upper floor. object type: Clay 'soul house', likely slab-built with additionally elements (stairs, offerings, pillars) shaped by hand and attached. A wooden/plant fibre frame was first constructed, and the clay built around the frame which burnt away in firing. There is a hole visible in the right side of the house, at the height of the first storey, allowing a view through the side of the house. A handprint is also visible on the bottom of the soul house where it was carried following its completion. title: house LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities creditline: Given by the British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1907 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/50994 CATEGORIES ------ category: model DATING ------ creation date: 2055 - 1650 creation date earliest: 2055 creation date latest: 1650 culture: 12th Dynasty culture: Middle Kingdom DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 38 dimension: Height units: cm value: 29 dimension: Width units: cm value: 34 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Umm el-Ga'ab title: Maquetas Arquitectonicas de la Antigueded. Las primeras represetnaciones de la arquitectura de Sumeria a Roma, 300 BC - 300 AD title: Crete and Egypt CITATIONS -------- Gizeh and Rifeh Umm El-Ga`ab : pottery from the Nile Valley before the Arab conquest --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant8/E_58_1907_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant8/mid_E_58_1907_281_29.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant8/E_58_1907_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant8/preview_E_58_1907_281_29.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant8/E_58_1907_282_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant8/mid_E_58_1907_282_29.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant8/E_58_1907_282_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant8/preview_E_58_1907_282_29.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant8/E_58_1907_283_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant8/mid_E_58_1907_283_29.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant8/E_58_1907_283_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant8/preview_E_58_1907_283_29.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels