Model showing Meketre overseeing the counting of his cattle.
Wooden tomb models were deposited as grave goods in the tombs and burial shafts throughout early Egyptian History, most notably in the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. They included a wide variety of wooden figurines and scenes, such as boats, granaries, baking and brewing scenes and butchery scenes. These served as ways to preserve the action depicted for eternity in honor of the dead.[1] The use of wood rather than other materials became popular in the first intermediate period.[2] Over time the models of boats in particular went from life size to much smaller scale though they remained numerous, some boats being less than a meter in length and fleets at times being larger than 50 models. The 11th dynasty appears to be when there is a shift from making these burial boats river worthy to making them stand nicely for funerary display.[3]
The number of models of scenes and boats increased as the periods changed and the types of figures in tombs shifted from people giving offering to scenes of daily life. This culminates in the Middle Kingdom where tombs could have over thirty scenes depicted, over fifty boats and only a dozen or so people giving offering. Compared to tombs in Giza that may have only twenty models with servants depicted.[4]
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^"Model of a funerary boat". Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
^Florek, Stan; Bleechmore, Heather; Jones, Jana; McGregor, Colin; Pogson, R. E.; Specht, Jim (2021-09-22). "Egyptian funerary boat model in the Australian Museum: dating and analysis". Records of the Australian Museum. 73 (2): 67–85. doi:10.3853/j.2201-4349.73.2021.1738. ISSN 0067-1975.
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