Carved Wooden Window Frame from Egypt: 6th to 7th centuries AD
The wooden window frame has sliding shutters decorated with birds and rosettes. The panels were once colourfully painted. This charming piece comes from Egypt, where the dry climate helped to preserve wooden objects and textiles. Similar decoratively carved wooden panels would have been used for doors, as we know from the stone tomb doors, also in the Benaki Museum, imitating such wooden house doors.
