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Granary

Granary





Artist : Anonymous

Relationship with : ( Meketre)
Time of : ( Meketre)

Material : Painted wood
Acquisition : Rogers Fund and gift of Edwards S. Harkness (1920)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dynasty 11
Right
Ground Floor - Section 4
Item 10 on 13
Ancient Egypt
Sculpture

Vitrine : 3 (Ref. 3)

Area related
Thèbes (Egypte)
Site related :
Cairo Egyptian Museum


Description   

A doorkeeper sits at the entrance while clerks inside tally the grains on wooden tablets and papyrus rolls, and two men mesure the grain in buckets. An overseer superintends this procedure. Inside the granary proper, when dump sacks of grain into bins, where ancient grain is still in place.
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