Object Details
- Collector
- Walter J. Clark
- Donor Name
- Walter J. Clark
- SEATED BLUE FAIENCE FIGURE HAS BARE TORSO & WEARS KNEE-LENGTH SKIRT. BACK STRAIGHT, ARMS ON KNEES HOLDING FLAT TABLET ON LAP, LEGS CROSSED & FOLDED UNDERNEATH. HAS CARVED FACIAL FEATURES & EARS. HAS BABOON CLINGING TO BACK OF HEAD, ITS TAIL DRAPING DOWN FIGURE'S BACK. COULD ALSO BE BABOON-SHAPED HEADDRESS? FIGURE RESTS ON FLAT, ROUGHLY RECTANGULAR BASE. HAS HAIRLINE CRACKS AT BASE BOTTOM AND NECK.
- Statue, blue faience, scribe with baboon headdress (representing baboon form of Thoth). Per Johns Hopkins University Egyptologist Betsy Bryan, probably fake or modern copy; shows an amalgamation of styles - pose and dress are typical of 18th Dynasty, while baboon headdress is more 19th or 20th Dynasty.
- Record Last Modified
- 14 Apr 2022
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Ancient Egyptian
- Accession Date
- 15 Jul 1997
- Collection Date
- 1955 to 1956
- Accession Number
- 409928
- USNM Number
- A553324-0
- Object Type
- Figurine
- Length - Object
- 7.5 cm
- Width - Object
- 7 cm
- Height - Object
- 14 cm
- Place
- Cairo (purchased here), Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Archaeology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8504095
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/328bd3e25-9562-446f-8ce9-0455bca7319f
