Funerary equipment
29.0cm
18.4cm
wood
7.5cm
Wooden headrest of Iuyu with the image of Bes on one sid, with a short inscription on the other and Taweret at the top, the decoration is finely incised.
Said to be from Saqqara.
Museum object
Bibliography:
- Keller, Cathleen A., Roehrig, Catharine H., Dreyfus, Renée, Hatshepsut. From Queen to Pharaoh, New Haven, London 2005, 256-257, Fig(s). 83, no. 190
- James, T.G.H., Corpus of Hieroglyphic Inscriptions in the Brooklyn Museum. Vol. I. From Dynasty I to the End of Dynasty XVIII, Wilbour Monographs 6, Brooklyn 1974, 90, Pl(s). IX, LII, no. 207
- Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities of the New York Historical Society, New York 1873, 31, no. 486
- Freed, Rita E., Doll, Susan K., Brovarski, Edward, Egypt's Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom, 1558-1085 B.C., Boston 1982, 74-75, no. 46