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Glazed baboon, sitting. Baboons feature in early dynastic dedications and are possibly a fertility symbol as later in Egyptian culture. Later, the god Thoth was sometimes represented as a baboon, but it is not known if this connection was made as early as the predyastic and early dynastic periods. This is one of a number of baboons from the Main Temple Deposit; examples were also found in the burials of the first kings of Egypt at Abydos.
Length: 8.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1898) by Egyptian Research Account
Predynastic
Early Dynastic Period
About
-3000
-
About
-2500
Accession number: E.91.1898
Primary reference Number: 49648
Oldadmincategory: FG
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Figurine" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/49648 Accessed: 2024-11-21 16:26:27
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