File:Bedchamber or Baldachin of Queen Hetepheres I.jpg
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| Description | This is a photo of the reconstructed gilded bedchamber of Queen Hetepheres I, the mother of king Khufu and presumably a wife of king Sneferu, Khufu's father. When her shaft tomb was discovered in 1925 by George Andrew Reisner at Giza, the dismantled parts of a gilded wooden frame of a baldachin (JE 57711) lay partly on the sarcophagus and partly between the coffin and the east wall of the tomb. As the wood had rotted away, the gold coating fell onto the pottery in this area. The box for the canopy (JE 72030) stood on the western edge of the coffin lid and disintegrated in situ. However, the inlaid decoration was found intact and in its original arrangement, allowing the reconstruction of the facade. Each of the long sides bears an inscription, separated into two mirror-image parts by two representations of the vulture goddess Nekhbet. The canopy could be disassembled relatively quickly and reassembled at another location by inserting the poles through the copper-plated pegs into the copper recesses. Hangers were attached to the top of the frame at regular intervals on all four sides, apparently for attaching curtains to the inside of the canopy and a cloth to cover them. No remains of the curtains were found. It is possible that they were originally stored in the box. The canopy must have formed a space in which the bed and perhaps other furniture were placed, perhaps for privacy or protection from insects. |
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| Author | Aidan McRae Thomson |
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