Bed canopy of Queen Hetepheres I
Frame for canopy of Queen Hetepheres I; consists of ten pillars, with cross-beams and corner-posts; two of the taller inscribed with the names and titles of King Snefru. The wood and copper fittings are restorations.
Details
- ID
- GEM_6372
- Alternate IDs
- GEM_6372; 6372; EMC_JE_57711; JE_57711; EMC_SR_1/10073; SR_1/10073
- Department
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Classification
- Furniture
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Khufu
- Title
- Bed canopy of Queen Hetepheres I
- Medium
- Wood (modern), ebony; gold; copper (modern)
- Dimensions
- 222.5 x 256.6 x 311.2 cm; 1059000 g
- Credit Line
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Provenance
- G 7000 X
- Bibliography
- Manuelian, Peter Der. " The Lost Throne of Queen Hetepheres from Giza: An Archaeological Experiment in Visualization and Fabrication."Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 53 (2017), pp. 4, 25, figure 9. Smith, William Stevenson. “The Old Kingdom in Egypt,” The Cambridge Ancient History, rev. ed. of vols. I & II, Cambridge University Press, 1962, p. 26.
- Notes
- From excavations of George Reisner, 1925. Restored 1930-1932. A large portion of Special Register section 7 (volumes 13-16) was originally misnumbered, with the object numbers following in sequence from section 1 volume 4; these numbers have thus been given EMC_SR_1 prefixes, despite being recorded in section 7.
- Remarks
- RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): George Reisner; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_JE_57711; EMC_SR_1.10073
