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Source Description
This animal with a hanging belly, short legs and tail, oval head, wide mouth, and large ears shown flat against the head is probably a hippopotamus. Details of the figure are partly modeled, partly incised. The right leg has been reattached.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
26697
label
Hippopotamus
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
6
Source metadata
id
26697
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Hippopotamus
description
This animal with a hanging belly, short legs and tail, oval head, wide mouth, and large ears shown flat against the head is probably a hippopotamus. Details of the figure are partly modeled, partly incised. The right leg has been reattached.
provenance
MacGregor Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [lot 708]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
second half 4th millennium BCE (Predynastic)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ivory & Bone
game pieces
figurines
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6
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6
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
1
height
3.2
depth
0.4
dimensionsRaw
H: 3/8 x W: 1 1/4 x D: 1/8 in. (0.95 x 3.16 x 0.36 cm)
Source extras
med
hippopotamus ivory
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6182
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EGY
PRE
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none
Page inventory
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