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Headrest collar

Wooden fluted collar from a headrest which fitted between the top of the shaft and the curved pillow top. With a rectangular hole through which the tenon fitted.

Wooden fluted collar from a headrest which fitted between the top of the shaft and the curved pillow top. With a rectangular hole through which the tenon fitted.

Object Headrest collar
Provenance Abydos, Egypt
Site Cemetery D, North Section
Period Dynasty XVIII, Hatshepsut; reused Dynasty XXV
Material Wood
Subject Egyptology
Ref. No 1900.54:11
Copyrights Bolton Council