Shop Cairo, Egypt
Egypt Home Egypt Now Ancient Egypt Shop Request Tour Kids Recipes Photos Message

The Tutankhamun Exhibit

Furniture and Boxes

Chair with Carved Figure of the God Heh
Chair with Carved Figure of the God Heh
 
Made perhaps of the timber commonly called "cedar of Lebanon" (believed to be Cilician fir), this very elegant chair closely resembles the golden throne in the design of it's lower part. The damage done to it by the ancient robbers is also very similar: the whole of the heraldic device commemorating the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under one crown, which occupied the space between the seat and the stretchers, has been ripped off, with the exception of the hieroglyphic sign for unification in the middle of each side. On the back panel is a superbly carved figure of the god of eternity, Heh, with a "life" sign slung over his right arm and holding in each hand a notched palm rib, attached at the base to the sign for "100,000" mounted on a coil of rope. At the top of each palm rib is a solar disk and cobra from whose hood is suspended a banner inscribed with the king's Horus name. The inscriptions emphasize the divine origin of the king.

Return to Tour Egypt

Shop the Virtual Khan el-Khalili, the Store for Egypt Lovers
Click Here to Mass Email Egypt Travel Companies to Request Tours
Contact Tour Egypt | Advertise | Search This Site | Search Egypt Web | Reader Photos

Design, Layout and Graphic Art by Jimmy Dunn, an InterCity Oz, Inc. Employee
All content, Graphic Art, Design, Layout, and Scripting Code Copyright 1999-2005 by InterCity Oz, Inc.