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Footboard from the cartonnage case of Heresenes

Third Intermediate Period
ca. 721–664 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 130
Fragments from the burial assemblage of the Lady of the House, Heresenes, were discovered in Pit 1 of Tomb MMA 832, along with burial equipment belonging to the Doorkeeper of Amun, Pakherkhonsu. The principal elements of Heresenes’s burial represented by this fragmentary material include her large outer anthropoid coffin, a smaller inner anthropoid coffin, and a cartonnage mummy case that had been torn open by plunderers. This footboard originally served to seal the bottom of the case and secure the mummy inside. Its decoration depicts the sacred Apis bull, associated with the god Ptah, carrying Heresenes’s mummy.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Footboard from the cartonnage case of Heresenes
  • Period: Third Intermediate Period
  • Dynasty: Dynasty 25 (Kushite)
  • Date: ca. 721–664 BCE
  • Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, el-Khokha, Tomb MMA 832 (H 3), Pit 1, Burial of Heresenes, MMA excavations, 1914–15
  • Medium: Wood, paste, paint
  • Dimensions: L. 22 × W. 29 × H. 5.1 cm (8 11/16 × 11 7/16 × 2 in.)
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1928
  • Object Number: 28.3.55
  • Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

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