chair
- Museum number
- EA2479
- Description
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High-backed chair of sycomore fig wood; seat of woven string(worn).
- Dimensions
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Height: 71.20 centimetres
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Width: 38.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Published:
Baker, Furniture in the Ancient World, (1966), p.132, pl.187.
G. Killen, Ancient Egyptian Furniture I (1980), p.54 no.2 pl.86, fig.29.
G. Killen, Egyptian Woodworking and Furniture, (1984), pl.56, p.47.
Shaw and Nicholson, BM Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, (1995), p.107.
362, 363 fig. 15.35-36
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair - seat worn
- Acquisition date
- 1835
- Acquisition notes
- Lot 663 at auction, Sotheby's, London.
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA2479
- Registration number
- .2479
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.2479 (Birch Slip Number)
