Squatting Baboon

late 4th-late 1st century BCE (Ptolemaic)

1.2 cm 2.3 cm 0.7 cm

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This squatting figure of a baboon has a loop on the back and was used as an amulet-pendant. Baboons could be representations of the god of wisdom Thoth but they appear also as animals greeting the sun god in the morning and the evening. This pendant has no moon disk and cresce...

Artifact

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19213
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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6
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