送葬者队伍模型 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	送葬者队伍模型
品名（英）	Model of a procession of offering bearers
入馆年号	1920年，20.3.8
策展部门	埃及艺术（Egyptian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 1981
创作地区	来自于: 埃及（From: Egypt）
分类
尺寸	长 47.5 厘米 (18 11/16 英寸); 宽 7.2 厘米 (2 13/16 in); 高 of base 3 厘米 (1 3/16 英寸); 高 of figures 24 厘米. (10 5/8 英寸)
介绍（中）	这一送葬队伍是在通往皇家首席管家Meketre岩石切割墓的通道一侧的一个隐藏的房间里发现的，Meketre在第11王朝的国王Nephepetre Mentuhotep II手下开始了他的职业生涯，并一直为历任国王服务，直到第12王朝的初年。两男两女，可能是Meketre的儿子和女儿，步调一致地走在狭窄的基地上。它的黄色将场景放置在通往坟墓的路上的沙漠中。第一个男人拿着一个大的祭奠瓶和一个香炉，用于祭祀仪式；第二个平衡了他头上的一堆亚麻布。一张亚麻布床单被染成了红色。亚麻布是每一次埃及葬礼不可或缺的一部分：木乃伊尸体被包裹在里面，折叠的亚麻布床单填满了木乃伊上方的棺材。两位女士都有篮子——第一个篮子里装着啤酒瓶和圆锥形面包，第二个篮子里放着方形面包——两位女士用翅膀抓着鹅或鸭子。该小组共同配备了适当葬礼和葬礼仪式的所有必需品 Meketre墓中所有可进入的房间在古代已经遭到抢劫和掠夺；但在1920年初，博物馆的挖掘机赫伯特·温洛克（Herbert Winlock）想为他绘制的底比斯第十一王朝墓地地图获得一个准确的陵墓布局平面图，因此，他让他的工人清理了堆积的碎片。正是在这次清理行动中，发现了这个隐藏的小房间，里面装满了二十四个几乎保存完好的模型。最终，其中一半被送往开罗的埃及博物馆，另一半被送往大都会博物馆。
介绍（英）	This funerary procession was discovered in a hidden chamber at the side of the passage leading into the rock cut tomb of the royal chief steward Meketre, who began his career under King Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II of Dynasty 11 and continued to serve successive kings into the early years of Dynasty 12. Two men and two women, probably Meketre's sons and daughters, walk in step on a narrow base. Its yellow color places the scene in the desert on the way to the tomb. The first man carries a large libation vase and an incense burner for use in an offering ritual; the second balances a pile of linen on his head. One linen sheet is dyed red. Linen was an indispensable part of every Egyptian burial: the mummified body was wrapped in it, and folded linen sheets filled the coffin above the mummy. Both women have baskets–the first containing beer bottles and conical loaves of bread, the second containing square loaves–and both women hold geese or ducks by their wings. Together the group is equipped with all the essentials for a proper burial and funeral ritual. All the accessible rooms in the tomb of Meketre had been robbed and plundered already during Antiquity; but early in 1920 the Museum's excavator, Herbert Winlock, wanted to obtain an accurate floor plan of the tomb's layout for his map of the Eleventh Dynasty necropolis at Thebes and, therefore, had his workmen clean out the accumulated debris. It was during this cleaning operation that the small hidden chamber was discovered, filled with twenty-four almost perfectly preserved models. Eventually, half of these went to the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, and the other half came to the Metropolitan Museum in the partition of finds.