Cartonnage Footboard (W1025)

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A wooden footboard from a cartonnage case with a black and white Apis Bull painted upon it. The Apis bull wears a uraeus on his head and a red beaded net on his back. The inscription around the bull identifies it as the Apis. It also states that the object was made for the Mistress of the House and Chantress of Amun, Tjesmutperet, daughter of Nespasefy. Anubis is written on the back of the board in black. The Apis Bull was added to the decoration of private coffins and cartonnages from the Twenty-second Dynasty onwards. The object dates to the Third Intermediate Period (c. 1069–715 BC). Part of the collection of Sir Henry Wellcome. On loan to the Egypt Centre since 1971 as part of the distribution of the Wellcome collection.