Picture frame

Until the present time there has been but one specimen only found, and that was discovered by Petrie when excavating in the cemetery of Hawara in 1889. It is made of painted wood and contains a portrait; the corners are joined with mortises and tenons. There is a slit running down both the top sides, evidently for the purpose of allowing a sliding cover to pa ; and as a sheet of clear gla has been discovered among the ruins of Tanis, it is not impo ible that the picture may have been covered with that material. This unique specimen is now in the British Museum.