Earthenware Model Of Bed
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Mar 1938
name: label: Donor Name
content: Miss Annie-May Hegeman
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "4 feet, upcurved foot, full length fig with infant (?) on top. "Bed with lady + child, Placed in tomb with male. New Kingdom, 15-14th century BC." - H. Ranke, U. of Pa. Mus., 4/15/39. Exhibit Hall 26, 1976."
label: Notes
content: From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Model bed with female figure, 1550-1187 BC. Researchers are not sure what role these objects played in the eternal world. Similar ones appeared in many tombs, and they may relate to rebirth or continuing fertility in the afterlife.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Jul 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Egypt (not certain), Africa (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ancient Egyptian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 147093
label: USNM Number
content: A378461-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bed Model / Figure