Statuette of a Baboon
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Statuette of a Baboon
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Published 2019-11-13T16:58:44+00:00
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Culture: Egyptian Material: Limestone Dims: H 19.5 Accession No: MG 005 Current Location: The Hunt Museum, Limerick. A baboon carved from limestone, squats with forearms resting on its knees. A hole in the crown indicates a headdress, a gilded wood sun disc or moon. The smooth face and shoulders indicates the Later Period rather than a New Kingdom hamadryas. The baboon was a manifestation of the god Thoth, a moon deity, who personified divine speech and was a god of writing, mathematics, astronomy and healing. Baboons were common at the animal necropolis in North Saqqara. More.
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| Date published | 13/11/2019 |
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| Title | STATUETTE OF A BABOON |
| Date | 1921-1994 |
| Accession | MG 005 |
| Medium | Stone |
| Credit | volunteers at the Hunt Museum |
| Record | https://www.huntmuseum.com/collection/statuette-of-a-baboon/ |
| Artist | Unknown artist |
| Place | Hunt Museum |
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