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Middle Kingdom
Fragments from two registers are preserved here. On top is a procession of men carrying bows and throwsticks, meant to be used, perhaps, for a desert hunt. Below are the remains of a clapnet, which would have been laid open over a pool in the marshy fringes along the edges of teh Nile Valley, and then pulled shut, trapping unwary birds inside.
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Title: Procession of men carrying weapons and a clapnetting scene
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 11
Reign: reign of Mentuhotep II
Date: ca. 2051–2000 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb of Khety (TT 311, MMA 508), MMA excavations, 1922–23/1926–27
Medium: Limestone, paint
Dimensions: H. 82 × W. 130 cm (32 5/16 × 51 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1926
Accession Number: 26.3.354i1
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