Description

A headrest is a piece of furniture designed to support the neck and keep a person's head and hair off the bed or sleeping mat. By keeping the head away from a surface, the headrest allows air to circulate and perhaps keeps the sleeper cool. The head-rest can also prevent an elaborate hairdo from becoming tangled.

This lovely and costly example could have been used by its owner, the Royal Chamberlain, Iry, in life, or might have been a funerary gift to help him in the Afterlife.

The inscription begins on the shaft and continues onto the base. "The sole friend, the revered one, Iry.  Revered before the Great God, the Royal Chamberlain,Iry."