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Description: | Baboon like figure holding a vessel. The baboon was sacred to the god Thoth and also to the god Amun whose cult was centred on Thebes. Purchased by Wellcome at auction in 1931. These items are usually thought to be New Kingdom in date and are usually made of stone (See E L B Terrace 1966. 'Blue marble plastic vessels and other figurines' in 'Journal of the American Research Centre In Egypt' page 57ff). Since this vessel is pottery it may be a fake (they are usually stone, though one was found at Soleb in pottery. See Schiff Giorgin 1971 p.195). See also 'The Egyptian Art In The Age of The Pharaohs' The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2000 p 128-9. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Temporal: | New Kingdom | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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