IDENTIFIERS
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id:	49648
accession number:	E.91.1898

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
title:	figurine

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/49648





TECHNIQUES
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mouldmade

CATEGORIES
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category: figure

DATING
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creation date:	3000 - 2500
creation date earliest:	3000
creation date latest:	2500
culture:	Predynastic
culture:	Early Dynastic Period

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 8.0



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience
CITATIONS
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Gifts of the Nile : ancient Egyptian faience
Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience [Minerva 1998]
Hierakonpolis II
Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum
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