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Cook Fanning the Fire to Roast the Duck He Is Holding in His Left Hand

anonymous

Cook Fanning the Fire to Roast the Duck He Is Holding in His Left Hand - anonymous

c. 2000 B.C.
wood sculpture
Egyptian Museum, Turin
© TopFoto / Roger-Viollet

View this work in the exhibition Fire

The work

Ancient Egyptian tombs contain many funerary groups in stuccoed wood depicting servants at work, providing invaluable historical evidence of daily life in the period. Making bread, grinding corn, brewing beer, roasting foul and slaughtering cows, the servants were expected to attend to the needs of the deceased in the afterlife. Here a cook roasts a duck, a common dish in Egyptian gastronomy.