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EGYPTIAN MIDDLE KINGDOM POTTERY HIPPOPOTAMUS

Standing on an integral, rectangular, sledge-like base, with long snout, small ears, and small tail. Old English collection.
Cf. P. Lacovara, ‘New Date for an Old Hippopotamus’, JMFAB, vol 4, 1992.
Cf. Tony-Révillon, Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Egypt 50, 1950, pp.48-71 Cf. AAW, XIV, no 194 for a similar example.
Repaired

Ca. 2061-1784 BC

L. 4 3/8 in (11 cm.); H. 3 1/4 in (8.1 cm.)


Art of the Ancient World, 2005, no. 175
TPD21
$2,750


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