Cartonnage-case footboard with image of a bull
- Accession Number
- W647
- Current Location
- House of Death (ground floor), Animals case
- Object Type
- Tomb equipment, Coffin/sarcophagus/cartonnage, Coffin/sarcophagus panel
- Period
- Third Intermediate Period
- Dynasty
- Twenty-second Dynasty
- Material
- Wood
- Provenance
- Egypt, Thebes/Luxor
- Measurements
- Height: 202mm | Width: 308mm | Depth: 13mm
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Animal
- Bull/cow
- Divine Name
- Apis
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Licensing details
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please contact the Egypt Centre.
- Description
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A wooden footboard from a cartonnage case depicting the Apis bull. It probably comes from Thebes and dates to the Third Intermediate Period. Bonnet (RAeRG p. 49) states that the Apis scene originated in 'the Running of the Apis ritual', in which offerings were seen as emanations of the god, and hence were called "body parts of the god". This was connected with Osiris and his body parts so that the Apis became a carrier of the deceased.
- Wellcome Number
- A9387
- Other Identity
- 23/(3) | 220/3 (Stick on label (mentioned in VA Donohue notes))
- Auction
- Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge: 12–14 Nov 1917, Lot 72 | Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge: 21–23 July 1920, Lot 220
- Previous Owners
- Field Marshal Francis Wallace Grenfell (1841–1925) | Spink & Son Ltd (auctioneers) | Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Last modified: 25 May 2022
