RICHTER, Gisela Marie Augusta

The Phaidon Press, Londres | London, 1966

Egyptian Museum (Le CaireCairo) ; Louvre (ParisParis) ; Musée Cinquantennaire (BruxellesBrussels)

sans contexte archéologique without archaeological context

[-1550, -1050] [-401, 300]

domaine artistique artistic sphere domaine domestique domestic sphere domaine public public sphere

boîte, cassette, caisse, coffret box, casket, chest  élément de mobilier furniture parts  meubles et fermetures furnitures and closures 

bois non identifié wood not identified

menuiserie joinery sculpture carving travaillé worked

1. Wooden table from Luxor, Figs 372, 377, p. 71 (one leg and part of another restored; also stretchers), H. 85 cm. Beautifully carved antelope legs, ending above in swan’s heads emerging from acanthus leaves. Table-leaf has rounded depression on one side with pegs for fastening some object (note 33: Bought by J. Capart at Thebes in 1905, diam. of table-leaf 55-58 cm; cf. Bulletin des Musées royaux 1916, p. 46; Deonna, Délos, XVIII, p. 40, Fig. 53; Balty, Mobilier grec, 1964, no. 36) – this type of round-topped table resting on three legs, often of animal form, appears in the 4th century BC and was apparently a Greek invention (p. 70).
Other finds, not necessarily from the Roman period:
– Egyptian wooden bed, Fig. 287, p. 54 (18th Dynasty, Valley of the Kings, Cairo N.2659).
– Roman wooden chest with fittings from Nubia (p. 114).
– Egyptian wooden throne from the Louvre, Fig. 39, p. 16 (Thebes, New Kingdom, Louvre N.2950).

Egypte Egypt		Louxor (Thèbes) Luxor (Thebes)	consommation
Soudan Sudan	Nubie Nubia		consommation