Thoth as a Baboon

1400-1185 BCE (New Kingdom)

3.7 cm 5.2 cm 2.5 cm

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The figurine of the god Thoth has lost its moon disk and moon crescent on his head. The god has a necklace with a shrine shaped pectoral around his neck. The face is not shaped as a baboon but rather depicted as a bearded man, and may have been reworked in antiquity.

Sculpture

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21401
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as obtained in Luxor]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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