Bronze altar of typical Hellenistic form, with a square receptacle with pointed corners. On each side different appliqués- visible in the photograph are busts of Serapis, uraei, and theatrical masks holding rings. Supported by a large shaft in the center, and four smaller, twisted papyrus bud pillars.
Condition: Base missing. One entire spreading side of altar top gone. Remaining corners much injured. All details encrusted and impregnated with bronze disease.
Large wooden panel. At the top is a horizontal band bearing an inscription which gives the name of Nectanebo II: "Life to the Good God, the Lord of the Two Lands, the King of Upper and Lower Egypt Nectanebo II." This inscription is written twice; once in each direction from the "ankh" which is written only once. Below this band are three wooden panels set into the main piece of wood. In the center is a seated goddess, facing right, crowned with a sun-disk. The other two panels represent, each, a uraeus coiled upon a "neb" basket, and wearing an "atef" crown. The snakes face inwards and extend two wings forwards. Before then are a "was" scepter and "shen" sign as well as a small cartouche. These figures are modeled in relief and inlaid with colored glass. The hieroglyphs of the upped band of inscription are also inlaid with colored glass. Below these figures are three panels, side by side, which are inlaid to resemble the woven patterns on false doors. The main piece of wood extends down past these last three insets but it is broken and rotted. Two rectangular pieces of wood extend sideways out from behind the upper band of inscription (one on each side). The piece is probably part of a piece of furniture.
Condition: Bottom rotted away; many glass inlays missing.
Typical XVIII Dynasty side chair of an unidentified hardwood, having legs imitating the fore and hind legs of a lion. It has a high sloping back hollowed to fit the occupant's back. Ornamentation consists of alternation of light and dark wood and nine inlays of bone or ivory simulating broad headed nails of no constructional value. Construction is accomplished through joinery, gluing, and wooden pegs.
Condition: Good. Several separations running with the grain of the wood. Most evident are, right front leg, frame of seat right front, and right back foot has been attached to leg by gluing. Back left has separation. Due to drying and shrinkage almost all joining places show slight to extensive separations. The several curved bracket braces are damaged and in some cases incomplete condition. Several wooden pegs are missing. Chip missing, upper left back edge.
4 Chair LegsCBS Register: 4 large silver caps for the 4 feet of a throne (?) 13 x 7 1/2 cm. charred wood inside. Description 2016: Fragmentary silver cylinder with carbonized wood fragments from the interior. Pseudomorphs present.
4 Chair LegsCBS Register: 4 large silver caps for the 4 feet of a throne (?) 13 x 7 1/2 cm. charred wood inside. Description 2016: Silver (?) cylinder that is open at both ends. There is carbonized wood on the interior and carbonized wood fragments on the exterior. Pseudomorphs present.
Bronze altar of typical Hellenistic form, for burning incense. Square receptacle with pointed corners. On each side different appliqués; lions' heads holding rings, fish, and a bust of Serapis. The hollow shaft decorated with incised bands.
Condition: Fragmentary. The piece has lost its base, some kind of supports at the corners, as indicated by holes on them, and nearly half of the spreading sides of the altar.
Wooden folding stool with curved seat. The legs are joined by bronze hinge pins, and end in carved duck heads, marked by slots for inlays.
Condition: Triangular ivory inlays on ducks head now lost. Stable but weak condition. Second cross is atrophied and tapers to a point.
One wooden ty.t or "Isis girdle" (a) and two (b-c) wooden Djed pillars. That these pieces were once part of a piece of furniture is indicated by the presence on each piece, at both the top and bottom, of a tang pierced with a hole. The wood is light, possibly acacia.
Condition:
a)Upper and lower tangs broken. Partially inlaid with bitumen.
b) Lower crossbar chipped in left rear. Adhesive remains around both tangs. Superficial scratching.
c) Upper crossbar damaged. Chipped in front. Some adhesive remains on tangs. Superficial scratching, Some bitumen remains.
Horse's cheekpiece with attachment holes. Engraved and inlaid design of wadjet eye with arm holding ram headed sceptre. Traces of blue inlay in eye. Guilloche border.
CBS Register: 6639c has the c crossed out. 4 silver (or copper?) staves with wooden core inside. 10 x 4 cm. One stave: 11 1/2 x 3 1/2 cm. Description 2016: Pseudomorphs present.
CBS Register: 6639c has the c crossed out. 4 silver (or copper?) staves with wooden core inside. 10 x 4 cm. One stave: 11 1/2 x 3 1/2 cm. Description 2016: Pseudomorphs present.
CBS Register: 6639c has the c crossed out. 4 silver (or copper?) staves with wooden core inside. 10 x 4 cm. One stave: 11 1/2 x 3 1/2 cm. Description 2016: Pseudomorphs present.
Leg of bull; wooden slat at top for insertion into body of object it supported; one hole drilled through side of leg at right angle to each end of leg. Could have come from any article of furniture which possessed legs.
This knob belonged to a chest and was used to fasten it. The inscription shows the two divine names of Aten, the sun god of Amarna, in cartouches, and the names of King Akhenaten. The line below the cartouches contains the wish for eternal life.For the latest information about this object, furniture; knobs, visit art.thewalters.org.Dynasty: 18th DynastyInscriptions: [Inscription]Reign: Style:
Leg from piece of furniture (chair or bed). Hind leg of bullock. Wood unpainted. Foot rests on eight-tiered plinth. Upper part pierced through for pegs. Flat upper surface has single, broad, dowel.
Condition: Surface throughout charred and worn, and worm-eaten on inner surface.
Undecorated wooden headrest of conventional form. Possibly a provincial piece.
Condition: Each end of curved portion of headrest badly chipped, otherwise good. Top of headrest appears ancient, cylindrical support and base look dubious. Possibly an assembled piece, although at present it is impossible to say that the piece is a forgery. Base seems small for support and the beveled edge is hard to explain.
Alabaster headrest made in three parts with fluted column. Inscribed in two lines and one column for the Village headman and Courtier sm3.1 (? or sm3), inscription incised and inlaid in malachite.
Condition: One chip (recent) on rim of headpiece. Much inlay lost from inscription. The three sections were glued together by Kofler.
One wooden headrest made in three pieces forming a sharply curved, single columnar shaft. The first piece forms the curved pillow and upper half of the column; the second (smallest piece) fits between the first and third, which forms the lowest quarter of the object and its base. The three pieces are secured by a dowel (end is visible on pillow). A round headed disc pierced with a tiny dowel holds the two in place. There is one column of inscription naming the owner yywy on one side of the main support. The opposite side shows Bes. There are two images of Taweret one on each end of the upper face of the base.
Condition: One end of the pillow is broken off and a jagged edge is exposed. Large gaping holes at both sides of the base as well as in the shaft. Two nearly parallel cracks on the shaft; some splintering as well.
Headrest, with two supporting columns, made of four pieces of wood pegged together.
Condition: Dirty; one edge of top chipped; large cracks here and there; other nicks and scratches.
Wooden headrest in three parts with octagonal pillar inscribed in two columns with name and titles of Ht (Khet).
Condition: One side of base has large gap; pillar badly split, rest chipped at one end. The headrest seems to be a re-used piece as the surfaces now containing inscriptions have very obviously been cut down, presumably to efface an earlier inscription.
One wooden lion's head, probably from a piece of furniture. The lion is shown, mouth open, its snout curved up in a snarl. The ears are back against head, the back of which is flat, and provided with a square dowel with peg stop still in place. The teeth are shown in two flat rows on upper and lower jaws. No canines are present. The ruff spreads out below the lower jaw and terminates in large flame like fringe. The eyes are moderately deeply set, the rim being copper the pupil of gold leaf. A piece of crystal may have been placed over this to complete the illusion. The cheek bones are prominent and emphasize the snarl. The interior of the mouth is painted red, the teeth white. Roof of the mouth sports rugae.
Condition: Right side of the piece is much damaged. A gaping crack extends through the eye socket from the snout all the way to the rear. At least seven other longitudinal cracks radiate in a fan shape. The right eye setting and gilding is lost. Lost also is the right hand side of the nose. The gesso covering of the left hand side is completely gone as compared with that of the right. The rim of the left eye, though in place, has been transformed into azurite with little copper left. The paint on the white mouth interior is fairly well preserved the white of the teeth less so. The great amount of damage appears on the left side of the head.
Wooden furniture element or part of a temple ornament carved in the form of a lion seated on a base. An inscription running down the front of the mane contains the titles and name Aspelta, King of Kush, (Nubia), at the time of the campaign of the Egyptian King Psamtik II against the Kushites. It was perhaps then brought to Egypt. The lion is coarsely carved and the body is elongated with the tail curved around the left haunch. The mane is represented by; a protruding disk shaped area around the face with hair indicated by zig-zag lines, a bib-like front mane reaching past the knees and scored horizontally and another portion covering the back of the head from top to shoulders with an overlapping zig-zag pattern. The piece seems to have been covered with plaster perhaps and then possibly painted.
Condition: Good. A crack on the left side of base running with the grain, a chip on the corner, back right side.
Possibly a huqqah (hookah) bowl and stand. One of an identical pair. Bowl made in India, stand later produced in England.Culture: Islamic, MughalMaterials/Techniques: lapis lazuli, ruby (mineral), gold, marble, ormolu, jade (rock)
Possibly a huqqah (hookah) bowl and stand. One of an identical pair. Bowl made in India, stand later produced in England.Culture: Islamic, MughalMaterials/Techniques: lapis lazuli, ruby (mineral), gold, marble, ormolu, jade (rock)
Rectangular wooden panel decorated with glass inlays. Most of the glass is gone and only the spaces gouged to contain them completes the scene. The top and sides of the front surface are decorated. A long horizontal strip at the bottom bears no traces of ever having been decorated in this fashion. In the center of the main panel, seated on a rectangular object, is the young Harpocrates or perhaps Re-Horakhty. He is flanked by kneeling kings who hold out offerings; behind the kings are uraei with sun-disks perched atop what may be Was scepters but which could also be plants, traces of red glass in the bodies and behind one of the snakes. Blue glass remains on the childs’ cap and in parts of the background. Gilded gesso is found on garments and on cobras.
Condition: Inlays missing; chips in wood; mended together from three pieces.