Finial, lion head
Medium:Wood, stucco, paint
Geography: Thebes (modern Luxor), Egypt
Date: c. 30 BC-642 AD
Period: Roman Period
Dimensions:9.2 × 7.1 × 5.5 cm
Object number: 910.37.13
Credit Line: Gift Of Mrs. H.D. Warren
Gallery Location:Galleries of Africa: Egypt
DescriptionThe third of our lion-headed
finals seems to look up as if wondering what has brought him to a Museum in
Canada, so far from his home in Egypt. Along with 910.37.11 and 910.37.12, he
once graced a piece of furniture, very likely a funerary bed. During the Roman period, a funerary bed
was sometimes used to support the mummy in the tomb chamber, and perhaps
during the funerary rites
