1981–1975 BCE) The making of bread and beer were combined in this workshop model discovered in a chamber in the rock cut tomb of the royal chief steward Meketre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York ( image via and courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art).Įvery effigy has a purpose and for those funerary models that proliferated in the Middle Kingdom, they were meant to be used by the dead. Model Bakery and Brewery from the Tomb of Meketre, Middle Kingdom, (c. In fact, there is a rich history of ancient 3D models which would ultimately influence and inform the later development of digital modeling tactics. Although I did not have a chance to discuss these early 3D models, they give us great insight into the economic undertakings and daily life of Egyptians living many millennia ago. In addition to contextualizing the discovery of this large-scale brewery, the article has a number of illustrations of later Egyptian models of breweries and brewery-bakeries that date to the Middle Kingdom (ca. The article focused on the discovery of an industrial royal brewery dating to 3100-2900 BCE at the Egyptian site of Abydos, where Adams co-directs the excavation with Deborah Vischak, as part of fieldwork supported by New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts and Princeton University. Last week, my interview with Abydos Archaeology’s Matthew Douglas Adams was published at Hyperallergic.
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