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Headrest

Medium/TechniqueWood
DimensionsLegacy dimension: .19 H.
Credit LineEmily Esther Sears Fund
Accession number04.1783a-c
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsFurniture
ProvenanceFrom Asyut. 1903: excavated by Emile Gaston Chassinat and Charles Palanque for the Institut francais d'archeologie orientale, Cairo; 1904: purchased for the MFA by Albert M. Lythgoe.
View: Leather seat cover
1550–1070 B.C.
Bed leg
2960–2675 B.C.
Bed leg
3000–2675 B.C.
Bed leg
3000–2675 B.C.
Bed leg
3000–2675 B.C.
Decorative panel
A.D. 364–476
Box
4th - 7th century A.D.
about 1700–1550 B.C.
Base of a headrest
1550–1295 B.C.