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Meketre brewery model depicts brewing work
A Middle Kingdom model from the tomb of Meketre depicts a combined bakery and brewery workshop, providing material-culture evidence for ancient Egyptian brewing labor and process imagery.
Chronology
What date is actually being claimed
ca. 1981–1975 BCE · precision: year range · approximate
Claim boundary
The date belongs to the model and its archaeological context. The model is evidence of brewing representation and practice, not an origin date for Egyptian beer.
Historical context
Places, participants, and period
These are identity links, not automatic claims that a place/person caused every downstream development.
Cross-world history graph
What this anchor helps contextualize
“Historically connected to” supplies sourced discovery context without asserting simple causation or lineage.
ingredient
Barley Grain
ingredient
Wheat Grain
Provenance
Sources and reuse status
Source authority and asset reuse rights are separate questions. Citation does not grant permission to reproduce an image or text.
Tier A · archive museum
Model Bakery and Brewery from the Tomb of Meketre
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Reuse: public domain
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historical era
Ancient Brewing Civilizations
A wide lens for ancient urban beer evidence, material culture, texts, labor, and ritual.
Navigation heuristic: 38. semantic 16 + evidence 4 + verification 6 + confidence 6 + cross-type 3 + route 3 + extra-relations 0
occurred_during · forward
Meketre brewery model depicts brewing work — occurred during → Ancient Brewing Civilizations.
Historical event falls within an era. BEU places this anchor inside the scoped ancient brewing civilizations navigation era.
place
Ancient Egypt
Historical territorial context for ancient Egyptian brewing evidence; not treated as a modern jurisdiction.
Navigation heuristic: 38. semantic 16 + evidence 4 + verification 6 + confidence 6 + cross-type 3 + route 3 + extra-relations 0
occurred_in · forward
Meketre brewery model depicts brewing work — occurred in → Ancient Egypt.
Historical event occurred in a place. Location context for meketre brewery model.
ingredient
Barley Grain
Raw barley grain used in brewing and malting contexts.
Navigation heuristic: 37. semantic 16 + evidence 4 + verification 6 + confidence 5 + cross-type 3 + route 3 + extra-relations 0
historically_connected_to · forward
Meketre brewery model depicts brewing work — historically connected to → Barley Grain.
Historical context only; this does not by itself prove invention, descent, causation, or exclusivity. The model depicts grain processing in a bakery/brewery context; modern ingredient categories are used only as navigation bridges.
ingredient
Wheat Grain
Raw wheat grain identity, kept separate from malted wheat.
Navigation heuristic: 37. semantic 16 + evidence 4 + verification 6 + confidence 5 + cross-type 3 + route 3 + extra-relations 0
historically_connected_to · forward
Meketre brewery model depicts brewing work — historically connected to → Wheat Grain.
Historical context only; this does not by itself prove invention, descent, causation, or exclusivity. The model and museum interpretation connect bread/beer grain work; this link does not claim one fixed ancient recipe.