Hippo

Hippo

The ancient Egyptians often snapped off the legs of hippopotamus statuettes before placing them in tombs, as these two examples show. The broken stumps of the smaller statuette’s legs demonstrate how bright blue glaze adhered to the white faience. The larger figure’s snout, perhaps also broken in antiquity, has been restored.

This text refers to these objects: 35.1276; 36.120
DIMENSIONS 1 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. (4.5 x 10.8 cm)


MEDIUM Faience, painted

•Place Made: Egypt

DATES ca. 1938-1539 B.C.E.

DYNASTY XII Dynasty-XVII Dynasty

PERIOD Middle Kingdom-Second Intermediate Period


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Being an “ass”: An Early Bronze Age burial

Being an “ass”: An Early Bronze Age burial

of a donkey from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel

http://www.anthropology.uw.edu.pl/06/bne-06-02.pdf

Detail of the granodiorite sarcophagus of Djeho

Detail of the granodiorite sarcophagus of Djeho with depiction of deities. Country of Origin: Ancient Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Period/ Date: Late period, 30th Dynasty, 380-343 BC. Place of Origin: Saqqara. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ The Louvre Museum, Paris. Location 39

Mosaic of Lion

Mosaic of Lion

CULTURE Roman

MEDIUM Stone and mortar

DATES 6th century C.E.

DIMENSIONS 1 5/8 x 42 1/4 x 29 5/16 in. (4.1 x 107.3 x 74.5 cm)

Roman. Mosaic of Lion, 6th century C.E. Stone and mortar, 1 5/8 x 42 1/4 x 29 5/16 in. (4.1 x 107.3 x 74.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 05.18. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (in collaboration with Index of Christian Art, Princeton University

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Cleopatra VII

Cleopatra VII

Altes Museum

Berlin