grandegyptianmuseum:Model folding stool, from the Tomb of Tutankhamun (ebony, paint, gold with inlai
grandegyptianmuseum:Model folding stool, from the Tomb of Tutankhamun (ebony, paint, gold with inlaid ivory). Reign of Tutankhamun. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1332-1323 BC. Valley of the Kings, West Thebes.Though this object looks like a folding stool, its elements are fixed. Actual portable furniture saw use during hunts and military campaigns. This seat has painted and inlaid decoration to imitate a leopard skin with its backbone in the center, the legs end in ducks’ heads. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. -- source link