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Finger Stalls
TR 20-12-21-24/SR 6162-6169 Cairo Antiquities Museum
Material: Gold
Size: Average Length: 5.8 cm
Period: New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC)
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Finger stalls, with their counterparts for toes, were
used in the funerary process to protect the easily
broken small bones of those appendages. This tradition,
which began in the New Kingdom, dictated that they
should be fashioned from gold, which was the flesh of
the gods.
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