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  Worldvisitguide > Places > Metropolitan Museum... > Ancient Egypt > Dynasty 11 > Granary
Granary
Artist : Anonyme

Relationship with : Meketrê
Time of : Meketrê

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

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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