Furniture legs

Furniture legs

A pair of painted wooden legs in the form of lions. Articles of furniture such as beds were dismantled so that they would fit into the small burial chamber with other offerings. Lion legs were popular on Egyptian chairs which normally had backs but no arms and either wooden seats or seat-frames with inlaid panels. These legs probably came from a funerary bed of the Roman Period.

Present location LIVERPOOL MUSEUM [03/061] LIVERPOOL

Inventory number 1978.291.325

Dating ROMAN PERIOD

Archaeological Site UNKNOWN

Category LEG

Material WOOD

Technique TURNED

Height 50 cm

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Bibliography•Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley., Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum., 1995., 39; pl.47.