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Leg from a funerary bed

712–698 B.C.
Findspotel-Kurru, Sudan
Country of Origin, for CustomsSudan
Medium/TechniqueBronze
DimensionsHeight x width x thickness: 56.1 x 13 x 30.5 cm (22 1/16 x 5 1/8 x 12 in.)
Credit LineHarvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession number21.2815
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsFurniture
ProvenanceFrom el-Kurru, tomb 72. 1919: excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Sudan.
(Accession date: December 31, 1921)