Headrest
- Accession Number
- AB80
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- Description
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A wooden headrest in three parts, probably from Abydos. There are faint traces of decoration visible on the spine, which is perhaps a depiction of Bes. Margaret Murray dated it to the Eighteenth Dynasty. The object was gifted to the University of Wales, Aberystwyth by John Bancroft Willans, a subscriber of the Egypt Exploration Fund/Society, who received the object in 1903. It was subsequently gifted to the Egypt Centre in 1997.
- Bibliography
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Hellinckx, Bart R. 2001. The symbolic assimilation of head and sun as expressed by headrests. Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 29, 61–95.
