Pair of painted wooden legs

Ptolemaic-Roman (about 332 BC-AD 395)

1978.291.325a-b

Pair of decorated wooden furniture legs

Height 50cm

This pair of painted wooden legs are in the form of lions. Furniture like beds and chairs were often dismantled so that they could fit into a small burial chamber with other offerings. Lion legs were popular on Egyptian chairs, which normally had backs but no arms. The wooden seats or seat frames would have inlaid seat panels. It is likely that these examples come from a funerary bed.


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