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Many aspects of the life of the Egyptian baronial households about 2000 b.c. arc illus
trated by wooden models deposited in the graves of the nobles, to provide them with
servants and retinue in the world to come. In this model grain store from upper Egypt
the clerks in the anteroom keep tally of the sacks carried in.
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