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Three wooden models and servant statues: woman working at a furnace; boat with a cabin and coffin below it; model with two offering bearers.

Details

  • ID
    EMC_TR_13.5.14.3
  • Department
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Classification
    Sculpture
  • Findspot
    Giza
  • Material
    Wood
  • Credit Line
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Excavator
    Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
  • Object owned by
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Notes
    From excavations of Hermann Junker. Note reads "These models are said to be of mud but appear to me to be wood eaten out by white ants. Evidence to be [?]. 9.14. I asked Junker in Vienna. They are wood or were[?] and are now thrown away as useless."
  • Remarks
    RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): Hermann Junker; RELATED MEDIA: EMC_TR_I_Sp003lr

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Modern People

  • Hermann Junker

    • Type Excavator
    • Nationality & Dates German, 1877–1962
    • Remarks Egyptologist, Director of German-Austrian expedition to Giza, 1911–1929. Published 12 volumes of final excavation reports from Giza expedition. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.

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