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Description: | Rectangular wooden box with sliding lid, button-shaped knobs at one end of lid and one short vertical side for sealing with string, part of which remains; the base rests on two thin pieces of wood placed either end across the narrower width of the box, a similar piece of wood being used to raise the lid knob high enough for winding string around and between the two knobs more easily; the pieces are joined with the help of small wooden dowels. Two horizontal grooves along the rear of the upper inner face of the longer sides serve to ease the sliding of the lid; the short vertical grooves on either side at slightly different distances along the lon edges may have been used to fasten the lid with a clip or band, now lost. The box contains eleven nuts and one dom-palm fruit or other fruit, and is perhaps from a funerary context given its inclusion in the volume by Petrie, Funeral Furniture | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | Rights holder: | University College London | Subjects: | Egyptology | Temporal: | name=late Middle Kingdom; start=-1850; end=-1700 | Source: | UCL Museums | Identifier: | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/objects/LDU... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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