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Furniture Leg, Probably from a Bed | musefully
Furniture Leg, Probably from a Bed, ca. 3000-2675 B.C.E.. Wood, 5 11/16 in. (14.5 cm)
Base: 1 5/16 x 1 5/16 in. (3.4 x 3.3 cm). Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 36.290.4. Creative Commons-BY.
Ancient Egyptians often sat or slept on mats on the ground, and their earliest furniture was extremely low. This furniture leg is shaped like a bull’s hind leg atop a ribbed cylinder and probably comes from the foot of a bed. Rare examples of completely preserved beds indicate that the legs at the head of the bed would have represented a bull’s front legs.