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Model-granary

Model granary crudely made in unbaked clay. With a round flat base, cylindrical body widening to shoulder and narrowing to hole at top. Small funerary model of a large pottery granary, which had a hole at top into which to pour the grain and a rectangular door at the bottom to extract the grain. Door not indicated on funerary model. Hand-made. Brownish-grey clay.

Model granary crudely made in unbaked clay. With a round flat base, cylindrical body widening to shoulder and narrowing to hole at top. Small funerary model of a large pottery granary, which had a hole at top into which to pour the grain and a rectangular door at the bottom to extract the grain. Door not indicated on funerary model. Hand-made. Brownish-grey clay.

Object Model-granary
Provenance Abydos, Egypt
Site Royal Tombs (Umm el-Qa'ab)
Period Dynasty I, Semerkhet
Material Clay
Subject Egyptology
Ref. No 1901.36:104
Copyrights Bolton Council