Details
A polychrome painted wooden furniture leg
from a funerary couch, in the form of a lion, the lion's head above a panel of vertical zigzag lines, two feet surmounting a tang below, details painted in red, ochre, cream and black, deep socket to one side of head for attachment, mounted -- 14 7/8in. (38cm.) high, Ptolemaic-Roman Period, 3rd Century B.C./1st Century A.D.
from a funerary couch, in the form of a lion, the lion's head above a panel of vertical zigzag lines, two feet surmounting a tang below, details painted in red, ochre, cream and black, deep socket to one side of head for attachment, mounted -- 14 7/8in. (38cm.) high, Ptolemaic-Roman Period, 3rd Century B.C./1st Century A.D.